Personality Disorder Flashcards
What is a personality disorder?
Enduring pattern of innter experience and behavior that leads distress/impairment and is pervasive/inflexible
What are the subtypes of Cluster A? B? C?
- Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
- Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic, Borderline
- Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive Compulsive
How are Cluster A Personality Disorders described?
“Psychotic-like but not psychotic”
What is Paranoid PD?
Distrust and Suspicion of others; It DOES NOT occur during the course of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders
What is schizotypal PD?
Pervasive pattern of interpersonal deficits marked by cognitive or perrceptual disortions/eccentricities of behavior that do not occur in the course of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders; Ex: ESP, tell future
What is schizoid PD?
Detachment from social relationships and restricted range of expression of emotions w/o course of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder
What are the Cluster B PDs?
Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic, Borderline
What is antisocial PD?
Pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of rights of others occurring since 15 yo; evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15; not occurring w/ schizophrenia or manic episode
What is histrionic pd?
Pervasisve pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood - sexually seductive, drama, theatrical, considers relationships more intimate than they actually are
What is narcissistic PD?
Pervasive pattern of grandiosity beginning by early adulthood; Need for admiration, lack empathy, sense of entitlement
What are the DSM criteria for borderline PD?
Pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood > 5/9 needed
- Frantic efforts to aboid real/imagined abandonment
- Unstable and intense interpersonal relationships; alternating idealization and devaluation
- Persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
- Impulsivity that is potentially self-damaging
- Recurrent suicidal behavior or threats, or self-mutilation
- Mood lability and reactivity
- Chronic feelings of emptiness
- Frequent/intense anger outburst
- Transient paranoid ideation or severe dissociative Syx
What are the cluster C PDs?
Avoidant, Obsessive Compulsive, Dependent
What is avoidant PD?
Pervasive pattern of social inhibition beginning by early adulthood; Inhibited in social situations because of feelings of inadequacy; Hypersensitive to criticism or rejection
What is Obsessive Compulsive PD?
By early adulthood:
- Preoccupied with details and lists
- Perfectionism interferes with tasks
- Excessively devoted to work/productivity
- Scrupulous about morality
- Unable to discard worn-out objects
- Micro-manages tasks
- Miserly spending style
- Rigid and stubborn
What is Dependent PD?
Pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of beginning in early adulthood; Indecisive, submissive and clingy, difficulty expressing diagreement; goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support from others
