Personality Disorder Flashcards
What is personality?
A cluster of relatively predictable patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that is generally consistent across time, space and context.
What are the 5 robust dimensions of personality?
Openness. Conscientiousness. Extraversion. Approachableness. Neuroticism.
What is a personality disorder?
An enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture.
The pattern of a PD manifests in 2/2+ areas. What are these areas?
- Cognition
- Affectivity
- Interpersonal function
- Impulse control
The enduring pattern is __________ and _________ across a broad range of personal and social situations
Inflexible
Pervasive
The enduring pattern leads to clinically significant ________ or __________ in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning
Distress
Impairment
The pattern is ______ and of ____ duration, and its onset can be traced back at least to ___________ or _____ _________
Stable
Long
Adolescence
Early adulthood
The enduring pattern is not better explained as a manifestation or consequence of another _______ ________
Medical disorder
The enduring pattern is not attributable to the physiological effects of a _________ (ie. drug abuse, medication) or _______ _______ _________ (ie. head trauma).
Substance
Another medical condition
What does anakastic mean?
Of obsessive nature
List the (8) criteria for an anakastic PD.
- Excessive doubt/caution
- Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organization or schedule
- Perfectionism
- Excessive conscientiousness and scrupulousness
- Undue preoccupation with productivity to the exclusion of pleasure and interpersonal relationships
- Excessive pedantry and adherence to social conventions
- Rigidity/stubbornness
- Unreasonable insistence that others submit to exactly his or her way of doing things, or unreasonable reluctance to allow others to do things
What % of the population have a personality disorder?
10%
What % of psychiatric outpatients have a personality disorder?
33%
What % of all psychiatric inpatients have a personality disorder?
50%
What is the difference between antisocial PD and psychopath?
Antisocial PD is largely based on behaviour, while psychopathy describes a set of ‘deficits’ in emotional and cognitive functioning