Personality disorder lecture

Question 1

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Personality trait

Answer 1

• Characteristic with which an individual is born or develops early into life
• Influences the way they percive and relate to the enviroment
• Stable over time

Question 2

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Personality disorder

Answer 2

• Occurs When a personailty trait deviates from the expectations from a culture
• Become rigid and inflexible
• Contributes to maladapive patterns of behaviors or impairments in functioning
• Leads to distress
• Causes impairment in interpersonal relationships, dysfunction in cognition, affect and impulse control

All people have traits of personality disoders, it doesnt mean they have a personality disorder

Question 3

Early symptoms of personality disorders

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• Usually occurs in late addolescence and early adult hood
• Temperment is an early symptoms

Question 4

Etiology of personality disorders

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• Multifactorial: Hereditary, temperamental traits, environment and neurodevelopmental
• Genetics
• Psychological influences: Child abuse, trauma and neglect

Question 5

Antisocial personality disorder causes

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• History of harsh erratic discipline
• Alc parent
• Abusive chaotic home life

Question 6

Borderline personality disorder causes

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• Severe belittling
• Invalidation
• Sexual abuse
• Dysfunctional home life

Question 7

Cluster A disorders: Names

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• Paranoid
• Schizoid
• Schizotypal

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Cluster B disorders: Names

Answer 8

• Borderline personality disorder
• Antisocial
• Histrionic
• Narcissistic

Question 9

Cluster C disorders: Names

Answer 9

• Avoidant
• Dependent
• OCD

Question 10

Cluster A disorder: Characteristics

Answer 10

• Odd eccentric behaviors
• Deficit in ability to relate to others

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Cluster B disorders: Characteristics

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• Narcissistic
• Dramatic, Emotional, Erratic

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Cluster C disorders: Characteristics

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• OCD personality
• Anxious
• Fearful

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Paranoid Personality disorder: Features

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• Suspicious, Hypersensitive, Secretive
• Must have control or power in a relationship
• Suspicious of others, being guarded as a result
• Can be aggressive
• Rigid, not willing to accept other people’s ideas
• High feeling of importance (They’re after me)
• Outwardly cold, lacks humor
• Envious
• Does not accept responsibility of their actions
• Prepared for any real or imaginary threat
• Always watching out
• May misinterpret something normal and find a threat lying
• Overreacts with excessive anger
• Responds with counter attacking behavior
• Hard exteriors, immune or insensitive to feelings of others
• Can be prone to sue other people

Cluster A personality disorder

Question 14

Schizoid Personaility disorders: Features

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• **Seclusive, Indifferent, Passive **
• Super flat affect, doesn’t like people, special interest
• Periphery of society (Avoids relationships, emotionally detached)
• Viewed by others as odd and lonely
• No interest in human relationships; feels uncomfortable around people
• Appears cold and aloof indifferent to others
• Prefers to work alone
• No spontaneity
• Energy toward non human interest (Math, astronomy, animals, work)
• Emotionally cold, indifferent to praise, flat affect
• Inappropriately serious about everything; difficulty with light hearted banter

Cluster A personailty disorder

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Schizotypal Personality disorder: Characteristics

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• **Odd in thinking, Bizarre fantasy, Peculiar language **
• Symptoms more like schizophrenia
• Cognitive or perceptual distortions, behaves eccentric (Odd by other)
• Socially withdrawn and anxious
• Unhappy about lack of relationships
• Ideas of reference, bodily illusions, depersonalization, unusual telepathic and clairvoyant experiences, sixth sense (Thinks they have super powers
• Magical thinking
• Social anxiety and unhappiness increasing over time
• Under stress they experience worse psych symptoms, like delusions and hallucination brief
• Aloof, Bland, Apathetic
• Talks to self
• Speech pattern can be bizarre

Cluster A personailty disorder

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Histionic Personality disorder: Charecteristics

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• ** Attention seeking, Flamboyant, Proactive **
• Attention seeking, Excitable, emotional behaviors
• Seeking approval
• More often women
• Behavioral expression may be influenced by sex role stereotypes
• May vary across cultures and age groups

Cluster B personality disorder

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Narcissitic Personality disorder: Charecteristics

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• Excessive self admiration, Egocentric, Sense of grandiose
• Pervasive pattern of grandiosity and over concern with issues of self esteem

Cluster B personailty disorder

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Borderline Personality disorder: Charecteristics

Answer 18

• **Impulsive, Self mutilation, MANIPULATION **
• Disruptive pattern of instability of self identity, interpersonal relationships marked with impulsivity and destructive behaviors
• From families that were subjected to constant belittling devaluation and invalidation

Cluster B personality disorder

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Antisocial Personality disorder: Charecteristics

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• **Rule breaking, aggressive, abusive **
• May have history of violence partner abuse, anger, vindictive behavior, recklessness
• Diagnosis made at 18+, typically evidence of conduct disorder in adolescent
• Substance abuse is common comorbid disorder
• No moral compass
• Commonly referred to as sociopaths

Cluster B personality disorder

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Antisocial personailty disorder: Features

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• Deceitful, manipulative
• Lack of guilt, anxiety
• Lack of empathy
• Socially unresponsive
• Exploitative
• Guiltless behavior with complete disregard for rights of others
• No concern for law
• Low tolerance for frustration
• Easily provoked
• Appear cold and callous, often intimidate others
• Unable to delay gratification

Question 21

Borderline personality disorder: Features

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• Chronic depression
• Inability to be alone
• Chronic fear of abandonment
• Clinging
• Manipulative
• Emotional dysregulation can lead to self mutilation and suicide, in response to Rejection
• Predictable maladaptive behaviors related to separation
• Severe impaired capacity for attachment
• Characterized by instability and dysfunction in affective behavioral and interpersonal domains
• Emotional instability
• **Always in a state of crisis
• Frequent mood swings
• Intense affect with frequent changeability
• thriving on chaos **

Question 22

Histrionic personality disorder features

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• Over concern with attention and appearance
• Colorful dramatic and extroverted behavior in excitable and emotional people
• Excessive time seeking attention or making themselves attractive
• Inappropriate seduction or provocative dress and flirting
• Flamboyant or self drama behavior
• Underlying insecurity
• Act out when not getting attention
• Difficulty maintaining long lasting relationships
• Needs constant affirmation
• Needs approval, if they don’t get approval results in feeling of dejection and anxiety

Question 23

Narcissistic personality disorder

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• Grandiose sense of self importance
• Exaggerated self worth
• Sense of specialness or entitlement
• Handles criticism with defeat, shame, dejection, rage or depression
• Fragile self esteem
• Exploitive, lacking empathy
• Expressive concern about appearance rather than substance, requires admiration
• Lacks empathy
• Exploits others to meet their needs
• Blames others
• Relationships superficial and based on belief what their partner can do for them
• Lacks humility, self centered

Question 24

Avoidant Personality disorder: Charecteristics

Answer 24

• Fears criticism, overly serious, withdrawn
• Sensitive to rejection, feels inferior
• Tends to be very sensitive, touchy evasive and mistrustful
• Desires affection but fear rejection or ridicule; social isolation as a result
• Avoids situations that require socialization (Shy,awkward in these situations)
• Desires close relationships but fear of being shamed/ridiculed
• Lack empathy due to preoccupation with own self deprecation
• Prevalence is same in men and women
• Does not respond with rage with rejection, hypersensitive to criticism
• Speech is usually slow and constrained with frequent hesitations, fragmentary thought sequence and occasional confused digressions
• Distressed by isolation
• All have social phobias
• View others as critical, betraying and humiliating
• May be perceived as timid withdrawn or cold
• **Low self worth **

Cluster C personailty disorder

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Dependent Personality disorder: Charecteristics

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* **Clingy, indecisive, submissive** * Exaggerated belief that they are incapable of survival alone * Avoids positions of responsibility and becomes anxious when forced into them * Relies on others for most areas of their life * ** Lack of self confidence ** and extreme reliance on others * Low self worth * Believes that they cannot function on their own * Passive, overly generous and thoughtful , underplay their own attractiveness and achivements * Clinging, and submissive * Can't imagine being alone =Tolerance of poor treatment by partner, including abuse * Suffering in silence * Perceive self as unable to separate from other, cannot work independently * Fear of abandonment ## Footnote Cluster C personality disorder

Question 26

Obsessive compulsive Personality disorder: Charecteristics

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* **Perfectionist, Passive aggressive, rigid** * Preoccupied with orderliness control and achievement of perfection * Obsessed with rules and details * Tasks often cannot be completed * Devotion to work excludes pleasurable activities * Uncomfortable with aspects of relationships that individuals cannot control * Difficulty expressing emotion * Inflexible, rigid perfectionism, preservation, (Pursues task even if its impossible * Intensive **Fear of making mistakes** * Recurrent obsessions and compulsions are **absent** (This would be in OCD) * Formal demeanor, lack of sense of humor, limited interpersonal skills * High achievers in areas that require attention to detail ## Footnote Cluster C personality disoder

Question 27

Personailty disorder assessment

Answer 27

* Assess for suicidal or homicidal thoughts * Assess for other psych disorders or medical disorder (Substance abuse) * View assessment from person's ethnic, cultural and social background * Did the pt experience a recent loss or trauma (Exasperation)

Question 28

Interventions for manipulation

Answer 28

* Set clear limits * United front: All limits should be enforced by staff equally * Refer to limits frequently as pt with try and push em * Teaching approach, but firm * Firm but supportive * **Consistency** * Behaviors should be documented objective (Time date, circumstance) * Provide clear boundaries and consequences * Avoid discussing yourself or others with patient or keeping secret for pt (Manipulation tactic) * Don't accept gifts or doing favors (Manipulation tactic)

Question 29

Interventions for impulsive behaviors

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* Identify needs and feelings underlying behavior (Insecurity) * Discuss with pt current and previous impulsive acts * Explore effects on pt and others * Help recognize cues to triggers of impulsive behaviors * Teach and rehearse alt behaviors *** pt safety is number one ** * Provide physical activity * 1:1 during exacerbations * monitor behavior frequently * Encourage pt to seek out staff when self mutilation is present * **Do not offer sympathy from wounds of self mutilation** * Positive reinforcement of desired behaviors, emotions * Remove dangerous objects that can be used to harm self or others * Ensure adequate amount of staff if show of force is needed * Sedating meds if needed * Mechanical restraints (Needs order)

Question 30

Psychotherapy: Cognitive behavioral therapy

Answer 30

* Helps pt become aware of their thought process so they can recognize negative behaviors and reframe thinking to improve functioning

Question 31

Psychotherapy: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

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* Focuses on stabilizing patient and achieving behavioral control * Emotional regulation * Distress tolerance skills * Constant crisis intervention **First line therapy for BPD**

Question 32

Pharmacological therapy

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* No meds to treat PD * Used to treat underlying symptoms (Anxiety, depression and all that) * Caution use of Benzo (Abuse potential) * Atypical antipsychotic for psychosis induced by stress * Antidepressants and mood stabilizers used to manage mood and treat aggression