13-3 Flashcards
Cluster A (Odd-Eccentric) Disorders
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
Cluster B (dramatic) Disorders
Histrionic
Borderline
Narcissistic
Antisocial
Cluster C (anxious) Disorders
Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive-Compulsive
Pattern of perceiving, relating, and thinking about the environment and oneself
Personality Disorders
When is the onset of Personality Disorders
Childhood-adolescence with behaviors solidifying with age
Treatment for Personality Disorders
CBT & medications
Distrust & suspiciousness;
suspicion “merely suspected” that others are being exploitative or deceptive
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Interpersonal detachment;
lacks desire for close relationships/intimacy
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Eccentric;
ideas of reference, unusual perceptual experiences, odd beliefs or magical thinking, odd appearance, odd thinking and speech
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Excessive emotionality;
Needs to be center of attention, provocative, uses appearance for attention
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Instability;
Unstable intense relationships w/ alternating idealization and devaluation “splitting”
Intense uncontrolled anger, chronic feeling of emptiness
Unstable self-image
Self-damaging, suicidal gestures/mutilation
Borderline Personality Disorder
Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, emphasis on self-acceptance using CBT techniques
Grandiosity;
Grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupied with success, requires admiration, sense of entitlement
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Typically has a single grandiose belief of delusion proportion, older age of onset
Delusional Disorder - Grandiose Type
Pervasive disregard for other’s rights;
Repeated unlawful acts, deceitful ness, irritability and aggressiveness, lack of remorse
Must be 18 and must be evidence of conduct disorder with onset before 15
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Antisocial Personality Disorder is associated with lack of physiological reactivity to what
Stressors
