Borderline Personality Disorder Flashcards
WHat is it?
instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affect, as well as marked impulsivity
Paranoid
distrust and suspiciousness of others
Schizoid
detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotional expression
Histronic
Excessive emotionality and attention seeking
Dependent
submissve behavior, fears of separation, and excessive need to be taken care of
What is OCEAN?
O-Openess to experience C-Conscientiousness-disinhibition E-Extraversion/Introversion-detachment A-Agreeableness/antagonism N-Neuroticism-negative affectivity
What is psychoticism
schizotypy
Difference between OCD and OCPD?
OCPD does not include obessions and compulsions, but they both an co-occue
symptoms:
abrupt mood changes, instability in relationships and mood, unpredictable, self-harm, cannot be alone, fears abandonment
Personality Traits
Negative Affectivity-emotional lability, anxiousness, separation insecuriety, depressivity,
Disinhibition-inpulsivilty and risk taking
Antagonism–hostility
Comorbid with
PTSD or mood disorders
substance-related disorders and eating disorders
schizotypal personality disorder
Treatment
DBT (dialectical behavior therapy)
Marsha Linihan-Diathesis stress therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Listen and stay calm; combines clinet centered empathy and acceptance with cognitive behavioral problem solving, emotional regulation techniques and social skills training
two main points of DBT
- accept them as who they are and yet help them change
- the client has to realize that splitting the world into good andbad is not necessary. They can achieve synthesis of these apparent opposites
causes:
childhood abuse
parental separation, verbal abuse, emotional abuse
