Final Flashcards
Personality Disorders
Ingrained patterns of relating to other people, situations, and events with a rigid and maladaptive pattern of inner experience and behavior.
Personality Trait
An enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and others.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Unrealistic, inflated sense of self-importance and lack of sensitivity to other people’s needs
Borderline Personality Disorder
- Pervasive pattern of poor impulse control and instability in mood, interpersonal relationships, and self-image
- BPD’s central feature is that of instability
- The way that people with BPD relate to others is termed “splitting”
Antisocial Personality Disorder
•The diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 require that an individual show a pervasive pattern of three out of seven possible behaviors:
- Failure to conform to social norms
- Deceitfulness
- Impulsivity
- Aggressiveness
- Disregard for safety of self or others
- Irresponsibility
- Lack of remorse
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Exaggerated emotional reactions, approaching theatricality, in everyday behavior.
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
A personality disorder involving intense perfectionism and inflexibility manifested in worrying, indecisiveness, and behavioral rigidity.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Formerly known as “Autism,”
This disorder incorporates a range of serious disturbances in the ways that individuals interact with and communicate with others, as well as in behaviors that can include a person’s interests and activity patterns.
Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD)
A neurodevelopmental disorder involving a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity that interferes with daily function/development for at least 6 months.
Alzheimer’s Disease
A common form of dementia, believed to be caused by changes in the brain, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.
Anorexia Nervosa
Characterized by an inability to maintain normal weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and distorted body perception
Bulimia Nervosa
- Alternation between the extremes of eating large amounts of food in a short time
- Compensating for the added calories either by:
- Vomiting
- Other extreme actions to avoid gaining weight
Binge Eating Disorder
- The ingestion of large amounts of food during a short period of time, even after reaching a point of feeling full, and a lack of control over what or how much is
- Binges occur at least twice a week for 6 months.
- Significant weight gain can occur since there are no compensatory behaviors.
Ethical Standards
- Resolving ethical issues
- Competence
- Human relations
- Privacy and confidentiality
- Advertising and other public statements
Competence
- Psychologists have the competence to:
- Assess, conceptualize, provide interventions for clients
- Expert testimony
- Evaluations in child protection
- Guardian ad litem
- Guidelines
