12: Personality Disorders Flashcards
Is this personality disorder odd, dramatic, anxious, or unspecified?
Schizoid
Cluster A - Odd Type
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic, antisocial (sociopathic), borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic?
Tend to project internal symptoms onto others.
Borderline
T/F Personality disorders, like depression, require treatment.
False. They do not always mitigate treatment. Complex disorders demand specialty treatment.
Is this personality disorder odd, dramatic, anxious, or unspecified?
Self-Defeating
Cluster D - Unspecified
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic, antisocial (sociopathic), borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic?
Paranormal and superstitious beliefs.
Schizotypal
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic, antisocial (sociopathic), borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic?
Signs and symptoms: hypersensitivity, hypervigilance, identification of things in their environment that “support” their ideas.
Paranoid
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic, antisocial (sociopathic), borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic?
Scenario: patient may see someone standing by the door as “waiting for them” versus someone who is simply waiting for a ride, unrelated to them.
Paranoid
Is this personality disorder odd, dramatic, anxious, or unspecified?
Schizotypal
Cluster A - Odd Type
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic, antisocial (sociopathic), borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic?
Characterized by excessive preoccupation with personal adequacy, power, prestige, and vanity.
Narcissistic
Is this personality disorder odd, dramatic, anxious, or unspecified?
Borderline
Cluster B - Dramatic Type
Is this personality disorder odd, dramatic, anxious, or unspecified?
Sadistic
Cluster D - Unspecified
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic, antisocial (sociopathic), borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic?
Most difficult to deal with medically.
Dramatic
T/F Clusters A/B remain in DSM-5 but clusters C/D are in flux.
True. Many were lost as true diagnoses.
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic, antisocial (sociopathic), borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic?
May respond abnormally in conversation, not respond at all, or talk to themselves.
Schizotypal
Is this personality disorder odd, dramatic, anxious, or unspecified?
Passive-Aggressive
Cluster D - Unspecified
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic, antisocial (sociopathic), borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic?
May have a rich and elaborate, exclusively internal, fantasy world.
Schizoid
Is this personality disorder odd, dramatic, anxious, or unspecified?
Dependent
Cluster C - Anxious Type