Personality Flashcards

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Personality (What? Healthy? Change?)

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thoughts, emotions and behavior

unhealthy when inability to function

hard to change

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Personality disorder

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When traits cause change in functioning

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Cluster A

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Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypa

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Cluster B

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antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissitic

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Cluster C

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avoidant, dependent, OCD

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Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria (3)

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Impulsive in two desperate areas
Recurrent suicidal behavior
Emotional dysregulation/lability

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BPD etiology

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trauma response
DECREASED SEROTONIN
Neurobiological abnormalities

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BPD DEFENSE MECH

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SPLITTING
see others as ALL GOOD or ALL BAD

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Self-Injury

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Do not reward with attention!

Care for wound,
“matter-of-fact”
talk about feeling
redirect violent behavior

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BPD treatment

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teamwork and safety
CBT
DBT
Schema - focused therapy

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Anti-social Personality Disorder (criteria)

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LACK OF REMORSE no empathy
deceitfulness
impulsive
irritability
reckless

do not conform to social norms

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Sociopathic causes

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Trauma/abuse

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Sociopathic Intervention

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SAFETY!!!
aggressive/impulse behavior

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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mistrust/suspicious
others are exploiting, harming, deceiving them

avoid others

do not feel responsible for feelings –> blame others

Risk for violence

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Histrionic Personality

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Colorful, dramatic, extroverted

ateention seeking (manipulative) flighty!

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Narcissistic Personality

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grandiose, lack empathy, deserve special consideration to their needs, fragile esteem

Cause: Parent: failures responded w neglect

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Avoidant Personality

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Socially withdrawn
Sensitive to rejection
Strong desire for companionship

cause: hereditary, irritable infants,

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Dependent Personality

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Extreme dependency, clinging, lack confidence

Overly generous, underplay achievements