Week 2 Flashcards
(28 cards)
Cluster A personality Disorders
(MAD) - weird
Odd or Eccentric: inability to develop scoial relationships. no psychosis; genetic ass w/ schizophrenia
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
dimensions - social deficits, perceptual distortions, cognitive impairment
distrust, social withdrawal, isolation, odd beliefs
Cluster B personality disorders
(BAD)
dramatic
emotional
erratic
types = historian, antisocial, borderline, narcissistic
genetic association with mood disorders and substance abuse
dimensions = impulsivity, aggression, affective instability, emotionality
rationalize behavior, strong feelings of superiority, sensitive to criticism
Cluster C Personality Disorders
(SAD) - Wimpy
anxious or fearful
avoidant
dependent
obsessive-compulsive (OCPD)
dimensions = anxiety/behavioral inhibition, compulsivity
genetic association with anxiety disorders
sensitive to rejection, anxious, anxiety, fear, need to be taken care of
paranoid personality disorder
Cluster A
pervasive distrust and suspiciousness and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent
pattern begins in early childhood
projection is major defense mechanism
schizoid personality disorder
cluster A
voluntary social withdrawal, limited emotional expression, content with social isolation (vs. avoidant)
schizoiD = Distant
pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings
schizotypal personality
cluster A
eccentric appearance, odd beliefs or magical thinking, interpersonal awkwardness
social isolative
antisocial personality disorder
type B
disregard for and violation of rights of others, criminaity;
males > females
conduct disorder if < 18 YO
borderline personality disorder
Cluster B
unstable mood and interperonal relationships, impulsiveness, self-mutilation, boredom, sense of emptiness
female > male
splitting = major defense mechanism
historian personality
cluster B disorder
excessive emotionality and excitability, attension seeking, sexually provocative, overly concerned with appearance
narcissistic personality
cluster B disorder
grandiosity, sense of entitlement, lacks empathy and requires excessive admiration, often demands the “best” and reacts to criticism with rage
a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts
avoidant personality
cluster C disorder
hypersensitive to rejection, socially inhibited, timid, feelings of inadequacy, desires relationships with others (vs. schizoid)
obsessive-compulsive
preoccupation with order, perfectionsism and control, ego syntonic: behavior consistant with one’s own beliefs and attitudes (vs. OCD)
dependent personality
cluster C disorder
submissive and clinging, excessive need to be taken care of, low self confidence
This pattern begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts. The dependent and submissive behaviors are designed to elicit care giving and arise from a self-perception of being unable to function adequately without the help of others.
Development of personality
nature = genetic, disposition to feel act and think in specific ways, temperament
nurture = learned, develops through socializationa dn experience, character
somatic pain disordesr
physical symptoms experienced in response to stress
no intentional
automatic or habitual physical and behavioral response to stress
complex somatic symptom disorder
one or more somatic symptoms that are disrupting or distrressing + at least TWO of the following:
1- disproportionate and persistenct concerns about medical seriousness
2- high level of health related anxiety
3- excessive time and energy devoted to health concerns
at least 6 months of symptoms
somatoform disorders
physical symptoms with no identifiable physical cause
unconscious - not intentional or feigned
somatization disorder
cariety of plaints in multiple organ systems (at least 4 pain, 2 GI, 1 sexual 1 psudoneurologic)
over a period of years
develops before age 40
conversion disorder
somatiform disorder - sudden loss of sensory or motor functions (ex: paralysis, blindness, mutism) often following and acute stressor
patient is aware but may be indifferent about symptoms
hypochondriasis
peroccupation iwth and fear of having a serious illness despite medical evaluaiton and resurrance
nociceptive pain
activation of nociceptors in peripheral tissues
experienced when an injury or irritation is detected by receptors in response to heat, cold, vibration, stretch and chemicals released from damaged cells
neuropathic pain
injury or irritation to the nerves themselves (ex: shingles, diabetic neuropathy)
experienced when peripheral, autonomic or CNS structures are injured, irritated and/or overactive causing dysfunction in pain signaling
nociception
change in senses induced by a noxious stimulus
chemicals released by crushed and broken cells are detected by other nerves and amply the pain signal
