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Personality Disorder Flashcards

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Personality

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How we perceive and interact with the world

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Manipulation

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Manipulates staff and others

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Splitting

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Driving a wedge between staff ( sometimes people with borderline personality disorder think of splitting as of splitting off of reality ( description of disassociation)

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Stable personality

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Enduring patterns that are flexible and adaptive

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Pathologic personality

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Enduring patterns that are inflexible and maladaptive

Brittle, hard to move on and recover

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Common psychological influence on personality

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Childhood trauma

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Personality patterns

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Cognition
Affective
Social/interpersonal
Behaviors

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Affective of personality pattern

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Emotional response
Are we labile? Are we appropiate?

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Social / interpersonal of personal pattern

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How we relate to others
Are style

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Behaviors of personality pattern

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How we respond to a situation (stress)
Impulse control? Immature coping? Delay of self gratification?

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Cognition of personality pattern

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Perception and thinking

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Without PD what are thoughts (cognition) like

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Accurate perception and interpretation of events

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With P/d what are thoughts (cognition) like

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Inaccurate perception and interpretation of events

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A person with PD is ego-syntonic when it comes to their social trait. What does this mean

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In tuned with one self and only seeing things in one perspective

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Why is treatment resistant to someone with PD

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They don’t perceive a problem or have insight so it is hard to get them on board with treatment that they don’t think they need

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what does someone with a personality disorder at high risk for?

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Suicide, divorces and seperation
Increase involvement with law enforcement

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Cluster A

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Paranoid PPD
Schizoid SZPD
schizotypical STPD

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Cluster b

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Anitsocial (ASPD)
Borderline (BPD)
Histrionic HPD)
Narcisstic NPD)

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Cluster C

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Avoidant (AVPD)
Dependent (DPD)
Obsessive compulsive (OCPD)

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What is cluster A known as

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Odd & eccentric traits

Where we have the spectrum of schizophrenic personality disorders

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Cluster B what is it known as

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B is for big
Dramatic , emotional, erratic
big behaviors , big emotion, big manipulation

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What is cluster C known for

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Anxious and fearful
Insecure
Inadequacy traits

Wimpy and weaker group
Diminished sense of self

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Commonly seen symptoms of cluster A

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Odd or eccentric behavior
Suspicious
Cold
Irrational
Withdrawn

Don’t have a big affect and have to work to get them to talk to you and trust you

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Cluster b commonly seen symptoms

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Dramatic , emotional behavior
Attention seeking
Labile
Shallow
Increased rates of substance abuse and suciide*
Changes from one big emotion to another quickly

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Cluster c common symptoms

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Anxious fearful behavior
Tense
Overcontrolled
Depressed

( anxiety and fear is very prominent

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Descriptive domain

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Affective
Cognitive
Social

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Affective domain

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Emotional expression
Ability to empathize

How do they express their emotions? Appropriate?
Can they empathize and to what extent?

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Cognitive domain

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Thoughts and perception
Motivation for actions
How and what people think about

How are they able to perceive and interpret ?
What motivates them to do stuff ? What motivates others?

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Common therapies for personality disorders

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Cognitive behavioral therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Psychoeducation

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CBT

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Helpful for coming up with healthy positive behaviors to replace negative

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DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy )

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Helps with develop behavioral skills to tolerate stress and regulate emotions and work on emotion disregualation.

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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Thinking about unconscious thoughts and behavior
Helps with impulse control

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Psychoeducation

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Teaching about illness , coping strategies and problem solving skills

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Meds to treat personality disorder

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Antidepressants SSRI
Mood stablizer - gabapentin
Antianxiety meds
Antipsychotic meds

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What are SSRI used to treat for personality disorder

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Depress mood, anger, irritability , hopelessness,

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What is the mood stablizer gabapentin used to treat

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Mood swings

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What is a low dose antipsychotic Alaznzpine used to treat in personality disorder

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Helpful with disassociation,psychosis, anger probs

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What is important to keep in mind when administering meds for personality disorder

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Don’t help with personality , just treat for symptom relief

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Why are antianxiolytics not first line in treating personality disorders?

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It can increase impulsive behavior

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