Personality disorders Flashcards
Key features of paranoid personality disorder
Hypersensitivity and unforgiving when insulted
Questions loyals of friends
Reluctance to confide in each others
Clusters of personality disorder
A: odd, bizarre and eccentric
B: dramatic and erratic
C: anxious and fearful
Key features of schizoid personality disorder
Presence for solitary activities
Lack of interest in sexual interaction
Few friends, emotionally coldness
Key features of schizotypal personality disorder
Ideas of reference (events that are happening are somehow related to them but some insight)
Odd beliefs and dress
Eccentric behaviour
Key features of antisocial personality disorder
Failure to conform with social norms (frequently arrested)
Deception and lies
Impulsivity, reckless and lack of remorse
Key features of borderline personality disorder
Emotionally unstable
Scared of abandonment
Impulsiveness
Recurrent suicidal thoughts
Key features of histrionic personality disorder
Inappropriate sexual seductivness
Need to be centre of attention
Depend on attention and approval of others for well being
Physically appearance used for attention seeking
Key features of narcissistic personality disorder
Grandiose sense of self importance Fantasies of success, power or beauty Taking advantage over others to achieve this Lack of empathy Arrogant
Obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Occupied with details, lists, order or organisation
Perfectionism
Unwilling to pass on tasks until they are perfect
Avoidant personality disorder key features
Avoidance of activities due to fear or criticism or rejection
Unwillingness to be involved unless certain of being liked
Ideas of being criticised in social settings
Views self as inept
Dependant personality disorder key features
Difficult making everyday decisions without reassurance
Lack of initiative
Unrealistic fears of being left to care for themselves
Urgent search for another relationship as a source of care and support
Key management technique for personality disorders
Dialectical behaviour therapy
