Personality disorder lecture Flashcards
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Personality trait
- Characteristic with which an individual is born or develops early into life
- Influences the way they percive and relate to the enviroment
- Stable over time
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Personality disorder
- Occurs When a personailty trait deviates from the expectations from a culture
- Become rigid and inflexible
- Contributes to maladapive patterns of behaviors or impairments in functioning
- Leads to distress
- Causes impairment in interpersonal relationships, dysfunction in cognition, affect and impulse control
All people have traits of personality disoders, it doesnt mean they have a personality disorder
Early symptoms of personality disorders
- Usually occurs in late addolescence and early adult hood
- Temperment is an early symptoms
Etiology of personality disorders
- Multifactorial: Hereditary, temperamental traits, environment and neurodevelopmental
- Genetics
- Psychological influences: Child abuse, trauma and neglect
Antisocial personality disorder causes
- History of harsh erratic discipline
- Alc parent
- Abusive chaotic home life
Borderline personality disorder causes
- Severe belittling
- Invalidation
- Sexual abuse
- Dysfunctional home life
Cluster A disorders: Names
- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
Cluster B disorders: Names
- Borderline personality disorder
- Antisocial
- Histrionic
- Narcissistic
Cluster C disorders: Names
- Avoidant
- Dependent
- OCD
Cluster A disorder: Characteristics
- Odd eccentric behaviors
- Deficit in ability to relate to others
Cluster B disorders: Characteristics
- Narcissistic
- Dramatic, Emotional, Erratic
Cluster C disorders: Characteristics
- OCD personality
- Anxious
- Fearful
Paranoid Personality disorder: Features
- Suspicious, Hypersensitive, Secretive
- Must have control or power in a relationship
- Suspicious of others, being guarded as a result
- Can be aggressive
- Rigid, not willing to accept other people’s ideas
- High feeling of importance (They’re after me)
- Outwardly cold, lacks humor
- Envious
- Does not accept responsibility of their actions
- Prepared for any real or imaginary threat
- Always watching out
- May misinterpret something normal and find a threat lying
- Overreacts with excessive anger
- Responds with counter attacking behavior
- Hard exteriors, immune or insensitive to feelings of others
- Can be prone to sue other people
Cluster A personality disorder
Schizoid Personaility disorders: Features
- **Seclusive, Indifferent, Passive **
- Super flat affect, doesn’t like people, special interest
- Periphery of society (Avoids relationships, emotionally detached)
- Viewed by others as odd and lonely
- No interest in human relationships; feels uncomfortable around people
- Appears cold and aloof indifferent to others
- Prefers to work alone
- No spontaneity
- Energy toward non human interest (Math, astronomy, animals, work)
- Emotionally cold, indifferent to praise, flat affect
- Inappropriately serious about everything; difficulty with light hearted banter
Cluster A personailty disorder
Schizotypal Personality disorder: Characteristics
- **Odd in thinking, Bizarre fantasy, Peculiar language **
- Symptoms more like schizophrenia
- Cognitive or perceptual distortions, behaves eccentric (Odd by other)
- Socially withdrawn and anxious
- Unhappy about lack of relationships
- Ideas of reference, bodily illusions, depersonalization, unusual telepathic and clairvoyant experiences, sixth sense (Thinks they have super powers
- Magical thinking
- Social anxiety and unhappiness increasing over time
- Under stress they experience worse psych symptoms, like delusions and hallucination brief
- Aloof, Bland, Apathetic
- Talks to self
- Speech pattern can be bizarre
Cluster A personailty disorder
Histionic Personality disorder: Charecteristics
- ** Attention seeking, Flamboyant, Proactive **
- Attention seeking, Excitable, emotional behaviors
- Seeking approval
- More often women
- Behavioral expression may be influenced by sex role stereotypes
- May vary across cultures and age groups
Cluster B personality disorder
Narcissitic Personality disorder: Charecteristics
- Excessive self admiration, Egocentric, Sense of grandiose
- Pervasive pattern of grandiosity and over concern with issues of self esteem
Cluster B personailty disorder
Borderline Personality disorder: Charecteristics
- **Impulsive, Self mutilation, MANIPULATION **
- Disruptive pattern of instability of self identity, interpersonal relationships marked with impulsivity and destructive behaviors
- From families that were subjected to constant belittling devaluation and invalidation
Cluster B personality disorder
Antisocial Personality disorder: Charecteristics
- **Rule breaking, aggressive, abusive **
- May have history of violence partner abuse, anger, vindictive behavior, recklessness
- Diagnosis made at 18+, typically evidence of conduct disorder in adolescent
- Substance abuse is common comorbid disorder
- No moral compass
- Commonly referred to as sociopaths
Cluster B personality disorder
Antisocial personailty disorder: Features
- Deceitful, manipulative
- Lack of guilt, anxiety
- Lack of empathy
- Socially unresponsive
- Exploitative
- Guiltless behavior with complete disregard for rights of others
- No concern for law
- Low tolerance for frustration
- Easily provoked
- Appear cold and callous, often intimidate others
- Unable to delay gratification
Borderline personality disorder: Features
- Chronic depression
- Inability to be alone
- Chronic fear of abandonment
- Clinging
- Manipulative
- Emotional dysregulation can lead to self mutilation and suicide, in response to Rejection
- Predictable maladaptive behaviors related to separation
- Severe impaired capacity for attachment
- Characterized by instability and dysfunction in affective behavioral and interpersonal domains
- Emotional instability
- **Always in a state of crisis
- Frequent mood swings
- Intense affect with frequent changeability
- thriving on chaos **
Histrionic personality disorder features
- Over concern with attention and appearance
- Colorful dramatic and extroverted behavior in excitable and emotional people
- Excessive time seeking attention or making themselves attractive
- Inappropriate seduction or provocative dress and flirting
- Flamboyant or self drama behavior
- Underlying insecurity
- Act out when not getting attention
- Difficulty maintaining long lasting relationships
- Needs constant affirmation
- Needs approval, if they don’t get approval results in feeling of dejection and anxiety
Narcissistic personality disorder
- Grandiose sense of self importance
- Exaggerated self worth
- Sense of specialness or entitlement
- Handles criticism with defeat, shame, dejection, rage or depression
- Fragile self esteem
- Exploitive, lacking empathy
- Expressive concern about appearance rather than substance, requires admiration
- Lacks empathy
- Exploits others to meet their needs
- Blames others
- Relationships superficial and based on belief what their partner can do for them
- Lacks humility, self centered
Avoidant Personality disorder: Charecteristics
- Fears criticism, overly serious, withdrawn
- Sensitive to rejection, feels inferior
- Tends to be very sensitive, touchy evasive and mistrustful
- Desires affection but fear rejection or ridicule; social isolation as a result
- Avoids situations that require socialization (Shy,awkward in these situations)
- Desires close relationships but fear of being shamed/ridiculed
- Lack empathy due to preoccupation with own self deprecation
- Prevalence is same in men and women
- Does not respond with rage with rejection, hypersensitive to criticism
- Speech is usually slow and constrained with frequent hesitations, fragmentary thought sequence and occasional confused digressions
- Distressed by isolation
- All have social phobias
- View others as critical, betraying and humiliating
- May be perceived as timid withdrawn or cold
- **Low self worth **
Cluster C personailty disorder
Dependent Personality disorder: Charecteristics
- Clingy, indecisive, submissive
- Exaggerated belief that they are incapable of survival alone
- Avoids positions of responsibility and becomes anxious when forced into them
- Relies on others for most areas of their life
- ** Lack of self confidence ** and extreme reliance on others
- Low self worth
- Believes that they cannot function on their own
- Passive, overly generous and thoughtful , underplay their own attractiveness and achivements
- Clinging, and submissive
- Can’t imagine being alone =Tolerance of poor treatment by partner, including abuse
- Suffering in silence
- Perceive self as unable to separate from other, cannot work independently
- Fear of abandonment
Cluster C personality disorder
Obsessive compulsive Personality disorder: Charecteristics
- Perfectionist, Passive aggressive, rigid
- Preoccupied with orderliness control and achievement of perfection
- Obsessed with rules and details
- Tasks often cannot be completed
- Devotion to work excludes pleasurable activities
- Uncomfortable with aspects of relationships that individuals cannot control
- Difficulty expressing emotion
- Inflexible, rigid perfectionism, preservation, (Pursues task even if its impossible
- Intensive Fear of making mistakes
- Recurrent obsessions and compulsions are absent (This would be in OCD)
- Formal demeanor, lack of sense of humor, limited interpersonal skills
- High achievers in areas that require attention to detail
Cluster C personality disoder
Personailty disorder assessment
- Assess for suicidal or homicidal thoughts
- Assess for other psych disorders or medical disorder (Substance abuse)
- View assessment from person’s ethnic, cultural and social background
- Did the pt experience a recent loss or trauma (Exasperation)
Interventions for manipulation
- Set clear limits
- United front: All limits should be enforced by staff equally
- Refer to limits frequently as pt with try and push em
- Teaching approach, but firm
- Firm but supportive
- Consistency
- Behaviors should be documented objective (Time date, circumstance)
- Provide clear boundaries and consequences
- Avoid discussing yourself or others with patient or keeping secret for pt (Manipulation tactic)
- Don’t accept gifts or doing favors (Manipulation tactic)
Interventions for impulsive behaviors
- Identify needs and feelings underlying behavior (Insecurity)
- Discuss with pt current and previous impulsive acts
- Explore effects on pt and others
- Help recognize cues to triggers of impulsive behaviors
- Teach and rehearse alt behaviors
*** pt safety is number one ** - Provide physical activity
- 1:1 during exacerbations
- monitor behavior frequently
- Encourage pt to seek out staff when self mutilation is present
- Do not offer sympathy from wounds of self mutilation
- Positive reinforcement of desired behaviors, emotions
- Remove dangerous objects that can be used to harm self or others
- Ensure adequate amount of staff if show of force is needed
- Sedating meds if needed
- Mechanical restraints (Needs order)
Psychotherapy: Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Helps pt become aware of their thought process so they can recognize negative behaviors and reframe thinking to improve functioning
Psychotherapy: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Focuses on stabilizing patient and achieving behavioral control
- Emotional regulation
- Distress tolerance skills
- Constant crisis intervention
First line therapy for BPD
Pharmacological therapy
- No meds to treat PD
- Used to treat underlying symptoms (Anxiety, depression and all that)
- Caution use of Benzo (Abuse potential)
- Atypical antipsychotic for psychosis induced by stress
- Antidepressants and mood stabilizers used to manage mood and treat aggression