Personality Disorder Flashcards
When do you diagnose personality disorder?
Early adulthood. This allows for complete development of person.
Described as odd and eccentric.
Cluster A
Paranoid personality, schizoid, and schizotypal
Cluster A
Dramatic, emotional, or erratic.
Cluster B
Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic
Cluster B
Anxious and fearful
Cluster C
Avoidant, dependent, and obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Cluster C
Pervasive, persistent, and inappropriate mistrust of others. Suspicious of other’s motive and assume that others intend to exploit, harm or deceive them.
Paranoid personality
Constantly on guard, hypervigilant, ready for any real or imagined threat, trusts no one, constantly tests the honestly of others.
Paranoid personality
Tense, irritable, insensitive to feelings of others. Feel like others are out to take advantage of them, extremely oversensitive and misinterpret and distort cues, do not accept responsibility for own behavior, shortcomings are other peoples fault, may be hereditary.
Paranoid Personality
Profound defect in the ability to form personal relationships. Failure to respond to others in a meaningful way. Lifelong pattern of social withdrawal, uncomfortable with human interaction.
Schizoid
Aloof, indifferent to others, engages in solitary activities or animals. Emotionally cold. No close friends and prefers to be alone, appears shy, anxious, or uneasy in the presence of others. Inappropriately serious about everything and has difficulty acting in a lighthearted manner.
Schizoid
Graver form of schizoid. Clinically present as aloof, isolated, and behaves in a bland and apathetic manner
Schizotypal
Has magical thinking, ideas of reference, illusions, depersonalization, superstitiousness, withdrawal into self, exhibits bizarre speech pattern, when under stress may decompensate and demonstrate psychotic symptoms, and demonstrates a bland and inappropriate affect.
Schizotypal
Don’t care about how their behavior affects others. Socially irresponsible, exploitative, and without remorse. Fails to sustain consistent employment, fails to conform to the law, exploits and manipulates others for personal gain, fails to develop stable relationships
Antisocial
Intense and chaotic relationships with affective instability. Fluctuating and extreme attitudes regarding other people. Highly impulsive. Emotionally unstable. Directly and indirectly self destructive.
Borderline
Excitable, emotional, colorful, dramatic, and extroverted. Flirtatious and seductive.
Histrionic
Self dramatizing, attention seeking, overly gregarious, seductive, manipulative, exhibitionistic (likes to show off body), highly distractible, difficultly paying attention to detail, easily influenced by others, difficult forming close relationships, strongly dependent, and somatic complaints are common
Histironic
Demonstrated as being well liked, successful, popular, extroverted, attractive, sociable and needing approval and to attract attention.
Histironic
Exaggerated sense of self worth. Lack of empathy, belief in an inalienable right to receive special consideration, hates feedback, and hypersensitive to the evaluation of others.
Narcissistic
Overly self centered, exploits others in an effort to fulfill own desires, mood is grandiosity and usually optimistic, related, cheerful, and care free. Views themselves as superior and believes they are entitled to special rights and privileges.
Narcissistic
As a child fears, failures, and dependency needs were responded to with criticism, disdain, and neglect.
Narcissistic
Extreme sensitivity to rejection, socially withdrawal, awkward and uncomfortable in social situations. Desires close relationships but avoids them in fear of being rejected. Timid, cold, and strange. Often lonely and feel unwanted, view others as critical and betraying.
Avoidant
Has no clear cause. May be a combination of biological, genetic, and psychosocial influences.
Avoidant
