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Personality disorders Flashcards

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Cluster A (Odd/Eccentric Personality Disorders)

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Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal

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Cluster B (Dramatic/Emotional Disorder)

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BPD, Antisocial,Narcissistic, Histrionic

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Cluster C (Anxious/fearful)

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Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive compulsive

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Prevalence of PD

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0.5-2.5%

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Clinical features of Paranoid Personality

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distrust and suspiciousness of others

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Behavioral manifestations of Paranoid personality disorder

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Mistrust
Argumentative
Grudges
Complaints
Hidden meaning
Hostile
Do not express feelings
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Which disorder is characterised by a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships, limited range of emotions

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Schizoid PD

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Primary Characteristics of Schizoid PD

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  • Avoid social activities
  • Prefer Solitary activities
  • Little pleasure in most activities
  • Detachment
  • Do not express their feelings (common with paranoid)
  • Sensitive to criticism but will not express it
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Antisocial PD - Overview

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  • Non compliance with social norms
  • Violate rights of others
  • Irresponsive/Impulsive/Deceitful
  • Lack conscience, empathy, remorse
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Characteristics of Antisocial

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  • No regrets
  • High rates of serial killers
  • Difficult to get excited
  • Fixation on their own goals
  • Need to have a diagnosis of conduct disorder in childhood
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What’s the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath

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Psychopaths are cold, sociopaths are nervous

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Major characteristics of psychopathy

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  • Superficial charm
  • Good intelligence
  • Unreliability
  • Untruthfulness and insincerity
  • Lack of shame/remorse
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What is dyssocial psychopathy

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A phenomenon that shows that we can all become antisocial with the influence of a group like mafias

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Neurobiological factors involved in antisocial

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  • Underarousal hypothesis
  • Cortical immaturity hypothesis
  • Fearlessness hypothesis
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Treatment of Antisocial

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Focus on prevention and rehabilitation

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BPD Clinical Features

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  • Patterns of unstable mood
  • Fear of abandonment and poor self image
  • Self-harm
  • First disorder to change the idea that PD’s cannot be treated
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BPD Clinical Features

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  • Patterns of unstable mood
  • Fear of abandonment and poor self image
  • Self harm
  • First disorder to change the idea that PD’s cannot be treated
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Causes of BPD

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Early trauma and abuse

Runs in families

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Treatment options for BPD

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  • DBT

- SSRIS

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Kinda between Narcissist and BPD

Shallow and only care about their appearance

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Overview of Histrionic

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  • Dramatic, Sensational and sexually provocative
  • Impulsive and need to be at the centre of attention
  • Thinking and emotions are perceived as shallow
  • Common diagnosis in females
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Which disorder is a sex-typed variant of Antisocial?

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Histrionic

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Treatment of histrionic

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  • Focus on attention seeking and long term consequences
  • Address problematic interpersonal behaviours
  • Limited evidence for treatment
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Clinical features of histrionic

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  • Dress and behave seductively
  • Concered about appearance
  • Attention-seeking
  • Impulsive
  • Dichotomous thinking
  • Vague speech full of hyperboles
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Which PD find it it hard to get excited

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Antisocial

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Which disorders have difficulty expressing emotions

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Schizoid and Paranoid

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Narcissistic PD Features

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  • Unreasonable self-importance
  • Attention seeking
  • Lack sensitivity/compassion
  • Sensitive to criticism
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Causes of narcissism

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  • Failure to learn empathy as a child

- Product of me generation

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Treatment for Narcissism

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Focus on grandiosity and lack of empathy

May also focus on concurring depression

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Avoidant personality disorder

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Sensitive to opinions of others
Avoid relationships
Anxious and fearful of rejection
Low self-esteem
Dependent on those they feel comfortable with
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What’s the difference between schizoid and Avoidant in terms of relatioship

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Schizoids don’t want relationships and APD they dant have friends so that they dont lose them or feel rejected

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Dependent PD

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  • Overly reliant on making major and minor decisions
  • Unreasonable fear of abandonmnet
  • Clingy and submissive in relationships
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Causes of dependent PD

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Linked to early disruption in learning independence

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Treatment options for dependent PD

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Focus on skills that foster independence

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Characteristic of Dependent PD

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Tend to agree with others to avoid rejection

Submissiveness, passivity, timidity

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Similarities between dependent PD and Avoidant PD

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  • Feelings of inadequacy

- Sensitive to criticism and need of reassurance

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Differences between Avoidant and Dependant

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Avoidant respond by avoiding relationships whereas DPD cling to relationships

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OCPD Features

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  • Excessive fixation on doing things the right way
  • highly perfectionistic, orderly and emotionally shallow
  • True obsessions and compulsions are rare
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Treatment for OCDP

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  • Address fears related to need for orderlinsess
  • Focus on rumination, procrastination and feelings of inadequacy
  • Workaholics because they are unproductive
  • Goals is create a perfect self to be accepted
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Ideas of reference are common in

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Schizotypal and paranoid

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Schizotypal PD have __ and __ beliefs

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Suscpicious

Odd

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Magical thinking is associated with which PD

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Schizotypal

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Avoidant PD is associated with fear of ___ ____

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being criticised

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