Personality Disorders Flashcards
(34 cards)
What does the 5-factor model comply of?
- Openness
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
What are 3 main things that occur in a Personality d.o?
- INNER Behaviour that is markedly deviated from the individual’ culture
- pattern in inflexible
- pattern leads to SIGNIFICANT DISTRESS
There are 3 more fts of tthe pattern of Personality d.so?
- stable pattern +LONG duration(onset - adolescence)
- pattern not better explained as consequence OF another condition (other diseases- Head trauma)
- pattern not attributable to the effexts of drugs
What is anankastic personality d.o?
- excessive DOUBT
- preoccupied with DETAILS, RULES, schedule
- perfectionism (interferes with task)
- stbborn
- productivity sans pleasure
- excessive pedantry
When is it considered a disorder (over a trait)?
- when it is PERVASIVE (occurs in a lot of situations)
- causes DISTRESS
- and/or causes impairment of FUNCTIONING
What conditions must be ruled out when considering personality d.o?
- hypertension
- hypercholestrolemia
- anemia
- insulin resistance
- mild COGNITIVE impairment
- hypothyroidism
How may personality be measured?
- ZAN-BPD (Zanarini Rating scale for___)
- PAS (personality assessment schedule)
- PDQ-4 (T/F)
- Minnesota MPI (t/f)
- IPDE (T/F)
What areas may be markedly affected in Personality disorders?
- cognition
- affectivity
- impulse control
- interpersonal functioning
What does it mean to have a condition of heritability of 0.29?
the variation of a trait with 0.29 heritability is said to be influenced by genetics at about 29%
and the environment at 71%
Which conditions are said to have a great heritability?
Borderline personality d.o histrionic d.o OCD PD ANXIOUS AND FEARFUL Dramatic and emotionao
Name 2 words to describe Cluster A PD.
Odd and Eccentric
Name 2 PD under Cluster A.
- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypical
What occurs with Paranoid PD?
- excessive sensitivity
- suspicious about friendly actions, sexual fidelity of partner
- HUGE conspiracy theories of world events
- combatitive sense of personal rights
What are the fts. of Schizoid PD?
-don’t give a shit pd
- few joy from any activities
- emotionally COLD
- can’t be warm; flattened AFFECTIVITY
- indifferent to praise
- little interest in sexual exp.
- solitary activities
- preoccupation with FANTASY
- no close friends
- insensitivity to prevailing social norms
What occurs in schizotypical PD?
~~WILLY WONKA~~
- ideas of reference
- magical thinking (telepathy, sixth sense)
- unusual perceptual exp.
- odd thinking/speech
- paranoid ideation
- constricted AFFECT
- peculiar behaviour
- lacks close friends
- excessive social anxiety (d/t PARANOIA)
What 2 words describe Cluster B PD?
Dramatic and Emotional
Name pd conditions in Cluster B.
- Histrionic
- Borderline
- Dissocial
What are the fts of Dissocial/Anti-social PD?
- (need 3 of these)
- callous for others
- disregard for social NORMS/ obligations
- can’t maintain enduring relations (not hard to establish them)
- Very low tolerance to frustration, aggression/violence
- can’t feel GUILT
- blames others
What is the diff. between pscyhopathy and antisocial d.o?
- antisocial PD is based on BEHAVIOUR
- psychopathy = set of deficits in emotional and cognitive functioning
What (at least 3)fts are seen in Borderline/emotionally unstable personality d.o?
- tendency to act UNEXPECTEDLY
- quarrelsome behaviour; conflicts with others
- outbursts of ANGER/VIOLENCE
- unstable mood
- won;t maintain action which has no immediate reward
What are the additional fts of Emotionally Unstable PD? (at least 2)
- uncertainty about self-image
- intense, unstable relationships> emotional crisis
- excessive effort to AVOID abandonment
- recurrent threats of SELF-harm
- chronic feeling of emptiness
What are the fts of Histrionic PD? (at least 4)
- self-dramatization, theatrical
- shallow affectivity
- seeks centre of attention
- inappropriately SEDUCTIVE in appearance
- overly concerned with physical attractiveness
How would a Narcissist act? (at least 5)
- grandiose of self-importance
- fantasies of INFINITE success, beauty
- thinks theyre EXTRA-ordinary; only connects those equallt extra-ordin.
- sense of entitlement
- no empathy
- conceited
- interpersonally OPPRESSIVE behaviour
- desires admiration
What 2 words describe Cluster C PDs?
anxious and avoidant
