Cluster B Flashcards
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Cluster B
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- Anti-Social
- Borderline
- Histrionic
- Narcissistic
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Anti-Social
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- Disregard for the rights of others
- Lack of superego
3
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Anti-Social Symptoms (3)
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- Impulsive
- Does not follow the law
- Manipulative
- Lack of remorse
- Irresponsible
- Discards safety of others
- Aggressive
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Anti-Social Explained
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- Psychodynamic Components are cruel, abusive early relationship, and identification with the aggressor
- Cognitive-BehavioralComponents is parental modeling or reinforcement of antisocial behaviors and cognitive deficits
- Biological companies include deficient anxiety reaction, prenatal drug exposure, structural brain abnormalities
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Boderline
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- Instability in relationships
- Self-image, emotions, impulsive, and self-destructive, need others to regulate them
- (DBT - They use a pager and always on call - The therapist)
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Borderline Symptoms (5)
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- Frantic effort to avoid abandonment
- Impulsive behavior in 2 areas
- Chronic Feelings of emptiness
- Recurrent suicidal behavior or threat to others
- Unstable self-image or sense of self
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Borderline Explained
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- Biological and environmental Components
- Childhood trauma, un-empathic early relationship, and predominant defense
- Dichotomous thinking
- Low levels of serotonin
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Histrionic
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- Excessively emotional
- Attention Seeking
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Histrionic Symptoms (5)
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- Uncomfortable in situation when not centered of attention
- Inappropriate sexual seductive or provocative behavior to others
- Considers relationship to be more than they are
- Easily influenced by others or circumstances
- Rapid shifting of emotion
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Histrionic Explained
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- Psychodynamic components include insecure childhood attachment and repression
- Cognitive-Behavioral components include self-dramatization to gain attention, vague, and impressionistic cognitive style
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Narcissistic
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- Need for admiration
- Lack of empathy
- Hardest to treat and usually pay the most
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Narcissistic Symptoms (5)
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- High self-importance
- Preoccupied with fantasies of power, money, beauty, etc.,
- Requires admiration
- Sense of entitlement
- Takes advantage of others to achieve own goal
- Lacks empathy
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Narcissistic Explained
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- Psychodynamic Components include underlying feelings of inadequacy, parental neglect or excessive indulgence, and predominant defense, which is idealization and devaluation
- Cognitive-Behavior Components include distorted view of the self