Psychological Disorders Pt 3

Question 1

A diagnostic category which describes inflexible behavior patterns that impair social relationships and functioning

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Personality disorders

Question 2

Inflexible behavior of personality disorders

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Inflexible- don’t change no matter what the context is

Behavior- traits

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Functioning of personality disorders

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Can’t keep a job, imprisonment

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Personality disorders: cluster A

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Includes the “odd or eccentric” disorder

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Personality disorders: cluster B

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Includes “dramatic and erratic” personality disorders

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Personality disorders: cluster C

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Includes “anxious and fearful” personality disorders

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Cluster A personality disorder- paranoid personality

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Constant and longstanding mistrust and suspicion of others. Interpret others motives as out to get you

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Cluster A personality disorder- schizoid personality

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Shows detachment and disinterest in all social relationships

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Cluster A personality disorder- schizotypal personality disorder

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Sense of discomfort with social relationships that coincides with eccentric behaviors and thoughts

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Erratic

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Unpredictable

In cluster B

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Cluster B personality- histrionic personality

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Characterized by excess and extreme emotions and ATTENTION SEEKING BEHAVIOR

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Always need to be center of attention, overly dramatic, and often inappropriately sexually provocative

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Histrionic personality

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Cluster B personality disorder: borderline personality

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Characterized by instability in relationships and moods

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Tend to have poor self-image ad very impulsive (highest suicide risks) and unpredictable. Black and white thinking

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Borderline personality

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Cluster B personality disorder: narcissistic personality

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Characterized by an exaggerated sense of self importance

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Often believes they are overly “special,” and that they are entitled to special treatment.
“Don’t you know who I am?”
Very self-absorbed

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Narcissistic personality

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Cluster B personality disorder: obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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Pervasive preoccupation with order, perfectionism, and control (no flexibility)
Interferes with social relationships and ability to accomplish tasks

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Cluster B personality disorder: anti-social personality disorder

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Characterized by a lack of conscience for wrong doing toward anyone. Fail to conform to social norms and laws.

Question 19

Very deceitful, irresponsible, and dangerous. Often aggressive or con artists and fearless. No remorse for wrong doing

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Anti-social personality disorder

Question 20

Most dangerous criminals fall under what disorder

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Anti-social personality disorder

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Biological link to anti-social behavior

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PET scans illustrate reduction activation in a murderer’s frontal cortex and less activity in amygdala

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Cluster C personality disorder: avoidant personality

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Avoids most social situations because of a fear of criticism or rejection,

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Avoids all social interactions. Feels inadequate and doesn’t take risk to avoid embarrassment

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Avoidant personality

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Cluster C personality disorder: dependent personality

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Submissive personality type that has trouble making decisions or taking care of self without others.

Question 25

Lack self confidence in own judgement

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Dependent personality

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Category of disorders which individuals have abnormal interpretations, feelings, or behaviors towards a physical/bodily symptom

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Somatic Disorders Soma-Body

Question 27

John believes his slight headache is life threatening and may be evidence of brain cancer

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Somatic disorder

Question 28

Somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder, what is more severe

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Illness anxiety disorder

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Examples of somatic disorders

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Somatic symptom disorder Illness anxiety disorder Conversion disorder Factious disorder

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Individual has at least one physical symptom which disrupts their daily life coupled with excessive health concerns about the nature of their illness

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John goes to several doctors and reads web md constantly in response to his stomach aches even if all doctors have told him it is not a life threatening issue

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Somatic symptom disorder includes 75% of cases formerly known as

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Hypochondriasis

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Illness anxiety

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Individual who has extremely preoccupation with having or getting an illness even if they DO NOT have any physical symptoms or very mild symptoms

Question 34

Jan is extremely anxious about getting Ebola even though she has no symptoms. She checks her body and takes her temperature 10X a day to see if there is any evidence. She also avoids public places where she thinks there is any chance she could come contact w/ illness

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Illness anxiety

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Illness anxiety includes 25% of

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Hypochondriasis cases

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Illness anxiety disorder

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Side ache- I guess I end an appendectomy | Headache- probably brain tumor

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Conversion

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Refers to the LOSS OF A PHYSICAL OR SENSORY FUNCTION when the is NO NEUROLOGICAL/MEDICAL CAUSE to explain

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Physical function of conversion

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Blindness, deafness, paralyzed

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Blindness/paralysis when nothing wrong with the body

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Conversion

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Conversion symptoms often have sudden

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Onsets, terminations, and reappearances

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Factitious disorder

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Conditions in which a person deceives others by pretending they have an illness by deliberately producing, faking, or exaggerating symptoms even in the absence of external rewards

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Factitious work

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FAKEticious

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Factitious disorder imposed on another

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Involves falsifying physical symptoms on another person, usually a child, most often by injuring other person