(52) Personality and impulse control disorders Flashcards

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Defn of personality disorder and characteristics

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behavior that deviates from society’s expectations and that are pervasive and inflexible, stable over time, and start in adolescence or early adulthood

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What are the predictors of developing a personality disorder?

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health and mortality, academic success, job performance, ability to make lasting relationships, drug abuse, criminality

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Freud and Erickson’s explanations for the development of personality disorders

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Freud: “fixation” at an early stage prevents person to move on

Erickson: certain tasks must be mastered at certain stages of development and will cause personality disorders if not AND “basic trust” people who were raised in chaos are deficient in basic trust

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extended early trauma an abuse have been shown to adversely affect …

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coping skills and brain development

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What are defense mechanisms

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unconscious cognitive strategies that help to deal with stressful information

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What are the common defense mechanisms?

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denial: contradictory or threatening info is not allowed to be stored in memory
repression: contradictory or threatening info is neither recognized or retrievable from memory
intellectualization: traumatic events or memories are re-conceptualized to seem distant from meaning and assc emotional response

Projection: feelings or ideas that are inconsistent with their idea of themselves is attributed to someone else

Regression: stress is responded to in cognitive processes that were used in earlier stages of development in which there was less stressful coping

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

inflated self image

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Narcacistic (B)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

pervasive relience on others

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Dependent (C)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

unstable mood and relationships

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Borderline (B)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

alienated

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schizoid (A)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

amoral and destructive

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Antisocial (B)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

suspicious and distructfus

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Paranoid (A)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

perfectionist and inflexible

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Obsessive compulsive (C)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

excessive anxiety

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Avoidant (C)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

odd ideas and behaviors

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Schiotypal (A)

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for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

dramatic and flamboyant

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Histrionic (B)

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biological relatives of people wiht schizophrenia are often cluster ___

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A

18
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often used defense mechanism for paranoid personalities

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projection

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common defense mechanisms for cluster B disorders (Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic)

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denial, projection, and somatization

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people with histrionic personality disorder often have a FH of

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antisocial or alcohol

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personality disorder that overlaps with narassitic

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antisocial

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What is a common defense mech for people with borderline personality disorder?

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splitting

23
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difference between schizoid personality and social phobia

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schizoid have NO desire for social relationships

social phobia HAS desire

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people with this disorder may be niave and sexually seductive

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Histrionic

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people with this personality disorder have bondary issues

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boderline

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people with this personality disorder are often humorless and hoard things

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obsessive compulsive

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people with this disorder have no conscious therefore they feel no guilt or remorse

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Antisocial

**LIFE LONG PATTERN

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personality disorders assc with magical thinking

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Schizotypal

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person with this personality disorder is a solitary loner (seeks night shifts) that does not want or seek close relationships

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Schizoid

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Pts with cluster ____ disorders are often mistaken for bipolar. How could they be differentiated

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B bc the pts with cluster B will not improve with medication (they need psychotherapy)

31
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Chronology needed to diagnose a person with antisocial personality disorder

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18 or older

evidence of misconduct starting BEFORE AGE 15

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personality disorder assc with self injurious behavior

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borderline

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person with this personality disorder takes pleasure in few (if any) activities

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Schizoid

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person with this disorder often has unstable moods, stormy relationships, and makes poor choices

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Borderline

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difference between a schizotypal person and a psychotic person

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schizotypal still are in touch with reality

36
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term for compulsive hair pulling

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trichotillomania

**OCD

37
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term for compulsive skin-picking

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excoriation

**OCD