Lesson 12 - Personality Disorder

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Cluster A Personality Disorders

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Paranoid Personality Disorder Schizoid Personality Disorder Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Cluster B Personality Disorders

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Antisocial Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder Histrionic Personality Disorder Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Cluster C Personality Disorders

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Avoidant Personality Disorder Dependent Personality Disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behavior that results in enduring emotional distress for the person affected and/or for others and may cause difficulties with work and relationship

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personality disorder

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A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent

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Paranoid personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings.

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Schizoid personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with reduced capacity for close relationships, as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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People with this personality disorder show a pattern of detachment from social relationships and a limited range of emotions in interpersonal situations. They seem aloof, cold, and indifferent to other people.

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schizoid personality disorder

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typically socially isolated, like those with schizoid personality disorder. In addition, they also behave in ways that would seem unusual to many of us, and they tend to be suspicious and to have odd beliefs

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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all have behaviors that have been described as dramatic, emotional, or erratic.

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Cluster B Personality Disorders

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characterized as having a history of failing to comply with social norms. They perform actions most of us would find unacceptable, such as stealing from friends and family. They also tend to be irresponsible, impulsive, and deceitful

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated

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Conduct Disorder

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They tend to have turbulent relationships, fearing abandonment but lacking control over their emotions. They often engage in behaviors that are suicidal, self-mutilative, or both, cutting, burning, or punching themselves.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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involves helping people cope with the stressors that seem to trigger suicidal behaviors and other maladaptive responses

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dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)

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inclined to express their emotions in an exaggerated fashion, for example, hugging someone they have just met or crying uncontrollably during a sad movie. They also tend to be vain, self-centered, and uncomfortable when they are not in the limelight.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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unreasonable sense of self-importance and are so preoccupied with themselves that they lack sensitivity and compassion for other people

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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anxious or fearful personality disorders

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Cluster C Personality Disorders

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extremely sensitive to the opinions of others and although they desire social relationships, their anxiety leads them to avoid such associations. Their extremely low self-esteem—coupled with a fear of rejection—causes them to be limited in their friendships and dependent on those they feel comfortable with

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of context

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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fixation on things being done “the right way”, this preoccupation with details prevents them from completing much of anything

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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A pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder