Personality Disorders Flashcards
(39 cards)
What is a personality trait?
-An enduring, repetitive pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself
What is a personality disorder?
- Inflexible, maladaptive, and rigidly pervasive pattern of behavior causing subjective distress and/or impaired functioning; person is usually not aware of problem
- usually presents by early adulthood
Should personality disorders be diagnosed in children?
-No because personality develoment is not complete
is the diagnosis of personality disorder reliable in elderly population?
-no!
What is Cluster A?
-Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by irrational suspicions and mistrust of others
What is Schizoid personality disorder?
- lack of interest in social relationships, seeing no point in sharing time with others
- Appear different to the praise or criticism of others and often seem cold or aloof
- marked by little pleasure in activities
- lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
What is the go to answer if we need to pick a therapy for the person?
- cognitive behavioral therapy!!!!
- if we have no idea what the answer is, our odds are best when picking these
What is Schizotypal personality disorder?
- odd behavior or thinking
- ideas of reference
- odd beliefs or magical thinking
- vague, circumstantial, or stereotyped speech
- Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity
What is Cluster B personality disorders?
-Dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders
What is antisocial personality disorder?
-pervasive disregard for the law and the rights of others
What is Borderline personality disorder?
-exteme “black and white” thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity, and behavior
What is Histrionic personality disorder?
-pervasive attention-seeking behavior including inappropriate sexual seductiveness and shallow or exaggerated emotions
What is Narcissistic personality disorder?
-a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy
What is antisocial personality disorder?
- repeated violations of law
- pervasive lying and deception
- physical aggressiveness
- reckless disregard for safety of self or others
- consistent irresponsibility in work and family environments
- lack of remorse
Is antisocial personality disorder more prevalent in men or in women?
-3x more prevalent in men
What is borderline personality disorder?
- frantic efforts to avoid expected abandonment
- unstable self image
- affective intability
- chronic feelings of emptiness
- 3x more common in women than men
How are borderline personality disorder people?
- very manipulative
- immature personality traits: teddy bear, tweety bird
- Need to set rigid boundaries when treating these pts
- are often victim of sexual abuse or emotional abuse
- have a high rate of comorbid major depression
What is labelle indifference in the histrionic personality disorder?
-a seemingly indifferent detachment, while describing dramatic physical symptoms
What is Cluster C ?
-anxious or fearful disorders
What is avoidant personality disorder?
-Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoidance of social interaction
what is dependent personality disorder?
-pervasive psychological dependence on other people
What is Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
-Characterized by rigid conformity to rules, moral codes and excessive orderliness
How does avoidant personality disorder differ from schozoid personality disorder?
- the desire relationships with others
- paralyzed by their fear and sensitivity into social isolation
- shy but not as odd as cluster A types
If someone cuts, what do we think of?
Borderline personality disorder
