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Cluster A: Odd or Eccentric
Paranoid Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
What is the core feature of Paranoid Personality Disorder?
Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others.
Symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder
Suspects exploitation, preoccupied with trust doubts, reads hidden threats in remarks, holds grudges, perceives attacks on character, suspects infidelity.
What makes treatment for Paranoid Personality Disorder difficult?
Difficulty establishing trust and poor treatment-seeking behavior.
What is the core feature of Schizoid Personality Disorder?
Detachment from social relationships and restricted emotional expression.
Symptoms of Schizoid Personality Disorder.
No interest in close relationships, solitary activities, little sexual interest, few pleasurable activities, emotional coldness.
How do people with Schizoid Personality Disorder typically present?
As loners with emotional aloofness and social disinterest.
What distinguishes Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
Interpersonal deficits, cognitive/perceptual distortions, and eccentric behavior.
Symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder.
Ideas of reference, odd beliefs/magical thinking, unusual perceptions, social anxiety, odd behavior or appearance.
What might treatment for Schizotypal PD aim to prevent?
Onset of schizophrenia.
Cluster B: Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic
Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
What is the defining feature of Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Disregard for and violation of others’ rights, starting in adolescence.
Symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Criminal acts, deceitfulness, impulsivity, aggression, irresponsibility, lack of remorse.
Why is this disorder common in prisons?
It predicts criminal behavior and high risk of reoffending.
What characterizes Borderline Personality Disorder?
Instability in relationships, self-image, mood, and marked impulsivity.
Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, impulsivity, suicidal behavior, mood swings
What is the most effective treatment for BPD?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
What is the hallmark of Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior.
Symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder.
Needs to be center of attention, sexually provocative, shallow emotions, dramatic, suggestible.
How do individuals with histronic disorder typically behave?
Overly emotional, dramatic, approval-seeking.
What defines Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.
Symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Grandiosity, fantasies of success, entitlement, exploiting others, arrogance.
What emotional struggles may narcissists experience?
Depression when they fail to meet their own inflated expectations.
Cluster C: Anxious or Fearful
Avoidant Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)
