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Flashcards in Personality Disorders Deck (26)
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1
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Cluster A Personalities are described by…

They include…

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Odd, Eccentric Behavior

Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal

2
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Cluster B Personalities are described by….

They include…

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dramatic, erratic, emotional behavior

Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic

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Cluster C personalities are described by…

They include…

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Anxious and Fearful Behavior

Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive Compulsive

4
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Personality is…

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an enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is uniquely recognizable in each individual

5
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What is a personality disorder?

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The fixed use of a limited set of coping mechanisms in all areas of living regardless of adaptability, the end result of which is impaired fxning

6
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Personality disorders can cause impairment in what four areas

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Cognition (perception of events, people)
Affectivity
Interpersonal Fxning
Impulse Control

7
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Typical course of personality disorders by age

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Diagnosis after age 18

Sometimes damage may diminish after age 35

8
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Describe Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Look for signs of slight
Look to see who will hurt them
See hidden meanings in communication
bear grudges
Use projection
9
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Describe Schizoid Personality disorder

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Loner
Indifferent to responses from others
Emotionally cool
Use non-goal directed fantasy

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Describe Schizotypal Personality disorder

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Unusual Loner
Social Anxiety
Odd beliefs, speech, perceptions
Emotionally cool
Ideas of Reference
Use magical thinking
11
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Distinguish Schizoid and Schizotypal

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Schizoid – Indifferent to others, non-goal directed fantasy

Schizotypal – Social Anxiety, Magical thinking

12
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Describe antisocial personality disorder

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Deficits in conscience
Defies social norms
Irresponsible
Heedless of harm to self or others without remorse
Acting out, Rationalization
Criminal Behavior
13
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Describe borderline personality disorder

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Fractured identity
Anger
Mood swings
Self Injurious acts
Intense interpersonal relationships 
Use Splitting, projective identification
14
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Only way to treat borderline personality disorder

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Dialectical behavioral therapy

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Describe Histrionic personality disorder

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Lives to convince (Dramatic, seductive, center of attention
Emotionally changeable and shallow
Preoccupied with appearance
Uses repression and conversion somatic disorder

16
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The classic frustrated housewife with a wealthy husband thats jacked up about plastic surgery

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

17
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Describe Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Self Absorbed, Entitled, Gandiose, Exploitative
Lacks empathy for others
Uses denail, projection

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Describe avoidant personality disorder.

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Sensitive to rejection but interested in interaction
Sees self as socially inept
Needs high degrees of reassurance to attempt close relationships, new activities

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Describe Dependent personality Disorder

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Needs someone else to nurture or care for
Fearful of independent actions
Absence of anger
Denial, Repression, Identification

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Describe Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

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Lives for structure and control
Perfectionistic
Emotionally constricted
Needs organization, lists, details
Use isolation, reaction formation, undoing
21
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Explain the defense mechanism. Splitting.

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Everything in the world is seen as all good or all bad with nothing in between.

22
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Explain the defense mechanism. Isolation of affect.

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Attempting to avoid a painful thought or feeling by objectifying and emotionally detaching oneself from the feeling.

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Explain the defense mechanism. Displacement.

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Channeling a feeling/thought from its actual sourece to something or someone else.

24
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Explain the defense mechanism. Altruism.

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Handling your own pain by helping others

25
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Explain the defense mechanism. Sublimation

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Redirecting unacceptable, instinctual drives into personally and socially acceptable channels.

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Explain the defense mechanism. Undoing.

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Trying to reverse or undo a thought or feeling by performing an action that significes an opposite feeeling than the original.