Week 21 Flashcards
Antisocial
- A pervasive pattern of disregard and violation of the rights of others
- These behaviors may be aggressive or destructive and may involve breaking laws or rules, deceit or theft
Avoidant
A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
Borderline
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity
Dependent
A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation
Five-Factor Model
- Five broad domains or dimensions that are used to describe human personality
- Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
Histrionic
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking
Narcissistic
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy.
Obsessive-compulsive
A pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.
Paranoid
A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as evil.
Personality
Characteristic, routine ways of thinking, feeling, and relating to others.
Personality disorders
When personality traits result in significant distress, social impairment, and/or occupational impairment
Schizoid
A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings
Schizotypal
A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.
Triarchic model
- Model formulated to reconcile alternative historic conceptions of psychopathy and differing methods for assessing it
- 3 components:
→ disinhibition
→ boldness
→ meanness - These can be viewed as the thematic building blocks for differing conceptions of psychopathy
Acceptance and commitment therapy
A therapeutic approach designed to foster nonjudgmental observation of one’s mental processes