Personality Disorders Flashcards
What are defining features for Schizoid Personality Disorders?
- Withdrawal from affectional, social and other contacts
- Perceived as emotionally “cold”
- Preference for fantasy, solitary activities and introspection
- Limited capacity to express feeling and experience pleasure
Other to ASD: people with schizoid are not interested in interpersonal relatitonships
What are characteristics of Schizotypal Personality disorder?
- inappropriate or constricted affect
- socially withdrawn
- Behaviour or appearance is odd, eccentric or peculiar
- odd belifs, magical thinking (inconsistend with subcultural norms)
- Suspiciousness of paranoid ideas
- Hallucinations/ illusions
What cluster is Antisocial/ Dissocial personality disorder fall into?
Cluster B
What are the characteristics of Antisocial personality disorder?
- Persistent disregard morals, social norms and the right of others
- callous about the feelings of others
- low tolerance to frustration
- aggressive tendencies
- frequently offenders
- impulsive
- lack of remorse
- behaviour that is nor readily modifiable by adverse experience
What is a “psychopath”
Very severe traits of Antisocial personality disorder +/- narcicistic personality dosorders
What are the characteristics or Borderline Personality disorder?
- Difficulties managing emptions and behaviour
- Impulsive without consideration of consequences
- unpredictable mood
- Emotional instability
- Lack of impulse control
- chronic feelings of emptiness
- intense and unstable interpersonal relationships
Often alcohol and substance misuse
Can be confused with bipolar, usually much quicker cyceling of emptions in Borderline + lack of eutheimic mood
What are characteristics of Histrionic Personality Disorder?
- Shallow and labile affect
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What are characteristics of Narcisistic Personalitty disorders?
What are characteristics of Avoidant personality diorders?
- Feeling of tension and apprehension
- insecurity and inferiority
- continous yearning to be liked and accepted
- hypersensitivity to rejection and critisism
What are characteristics of dependant personality disorders?
- Pervasice passive reliance on others to make decisions
- Fear of abandonment
- feeling of helplessness and incompetence
- passive compliance with the wishes of elders and others
- weak response to the demands of daily life
What are characteristics of obsessive compulsive personality disorders?
- Feelings of doubt
- Perfectionism
- Excessive conscientiousness
- checking and preoccupation with details
- Stubbornness, caution and rigidity
- May be associatted with obsessions or compulsions that DO NOT attain the severity of OCD
What psychological ttherapies are available in treattment of Cluster B personality disorders?
What is the mecial treatment for personality disorders?
Overall no medical treatment is licenced for personality disorders
But some antidepressants, low dose anti-psychotics, mood stabelisers hel
