Chapter 27: Borderline Personality Flashcards
complex pattern of characteristics largely outside of the persons awareness, that comprise that individuals distinctive pattern of perceiving, feeling thinking coping and behavior
personality
are prominent aspects of personality that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts
personality traits
diagnosis based on abnormal inflexible behavior patterns of long duration traced to adolescence or early adult hood that deviate from acceptable cultural norms
personality disorder
the development of a separate and distinct personality are evident when there is impairment in identity integration
self-identity
ability to relate to others with empathy or intimacy
interpersonal functioning
characterized by a disruptive patter of instability related to self-identity interpersonal relationships and affects combined with marked impuslivity and destructive behavior
borderline personality disorder
occurs when parts of a persons identity are absent or poorly developed; lack of consistent sense of identity
idenitfy diffusion
rapid and extreme shifts in mood, erratic emotional responses to situations and intense sensitivity to critism or percieved slights
affective instability
evaluating experiences people and objects in terms of mutually exclusive categories which informs extreme interpretations of events that would normally be viewed as including both positive and negative aspects
dichotomous thinking
a disruption in the normally occurring linkages among subjective awareness, feelings, thoughts, behavior and memories
dissociation
acting wihtout considering the consequences of the act or alternative actions
impusivity
is deliberate self-injurious behavior with then intent to hurt self
self harm
a normal devlopemtant process during which the child develops a sense of self a permanent sense of significant totters and integration of both bad and good as a component of the self concept
separation individuation
patients falsely attribute to others their own unacceptable feelings impulses or thoughts
projective identifitication
patterns of thoughts that determine how a person interprets events
cognitive shcemas
senstivity and reactivity to enviornemtnal stress
emotional vulnerability
is the inability to control emotions in social interactions and includes an instability of mood, marked shifts from or to depression, stress related and transient mood crashes, rejection sensitivity and inappropriate and intense outbursts of anger
emotional dysregulation
a social situation that negates private emotional responses and communication
invalidating environment
categorized as all good or bad
splitting
a pattern of repetitive significant trauma and loss together with an inability to fully experience and personally iterate or resolve theses events
inhibited grieving
combines cognitive and behavior therapy strategies
dialectical behavior therapy
integral part of DBT and are taught in group settings in which patients practice emotional regulation interpersonal effectiveness distress tolerance core mindfulness and self management skills
skills groups
triad provides a speficic syntax and order patients to identify and express their feelings and seek relief
communication triad
help patient control the inappropriate expression of feelings
thought stopping
