Personality Disorders Flashcards
How are personality disorders divided?
Into 3 clusters
- Cluster A
- Cluster B
- Cluster C
What are the personality disorders in Cluster A?
Paranoid PD
Schizoid PD
Schizotypical PD
What are the key concepts to paranoid PD?
-A pervasive distrust and suspisioness of others, others are always seen as maleovent
-Starts early adulthood
-4 or more symptoms
What are the symptoms associated with paranoid PD?
-Suspicion without basis, others are out to get them
Preoccupied with unjustful doubts about loyalty or trustworthiness of others
-Reluctant to confide in others
-Reads hidden meanings or sentences in benign conversations or events
-Bears grudges
-Attacks on their personality, quick to attack
-Recurrent suspicions of fidelity
What are key concepts to schizoid PD?
-A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationship and restricted range of expressed emotions in interpersonal settings
-4 or more symptoms
What are the symptoms associated with schizoid PD?
-Neither desires nor enjoys close social relationship
Rather choose solitary activities
-Little interest, if any, in sexual partners
-Takes pleasure in few interests
-Lacks close friends or confidants
-Appears indifferent to praise or criticism
-Shows emotional coldness, detachment or flattened affectivity
What are key concepts to schizotypal PD?
-Pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort and reduced capacity for close friendships
-Excentric behaviours
-Cognitive and perceptual distrortions
-5 or more symptoms
What are the symptoms associated with schizotypal PD?
-Ideas of reference (not normal)
-Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influence behaviour and is inconsistend with subcultural norms
-Unusual perceptual experiences
-Odd thinking and speech
-Suspiciosness or paranoid ideation
-Inappropriate or constricted affect
-Behaviour or appereance that is odd, peculiar or eccentric
-Lack of close friends or confidants
-Social anxiety, paranoid fears
What PDs are in Cluster B?
ASPD
EIPS
Histrionic PD
Narcissistic PD
What are the key concepts to ASPD?
-Pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others
-Teenage years, evidence of conduct disorder before age of 15
-At least 3 symptoms
What are the symptoms associated with ASPD?
-Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours
-Deceitfulness - lying, conning others, aliases
-Impulsivity or lack of planning ahead
-Irritability and aggressiveness
-Reckless disregard of others and self, safety
-Consistent irresponsibility
Lack of remorse
What are the key concepts for Borderline PD?
-Instability of relationships, self image, impulsivity
-5 or more symptoms
What are the symptoms associated with Borderline PD?
-Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonmwnt
-Unstable and intense interpersonal relations, extreme idealization and devaluation
-Impulsivity in 2 areas that are potentionally self-damaging
-Suicidal behaviour or self harm
-Affective instability due to reactive mood
-Chronic feelings of emptiness
-Anger-management issues
-Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
What is the key concept to histrionic PD and its related contexts?
-Pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, 5 or more related contexts
-Uncomfortable in situations where they are not center of attention
-Interactions with others are characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behaviour
-Rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
-Use of physical appereance to draw attention
-Is suggestible
-Self-dramatization
-Considers relations to be more intimate than reality
What are the key concepts to narcissistic PD?
-A pattern of grandiosity
-Need for admiration
-Lack empathy
-5 or more traits
-They are the center of universe
What are some traits associated with narcissistic PD?
-Grandiose sense of self-importance
-Preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance etc
-They are special and unique, only be understood by other special or high-status people
-Excessive admiration
-Sense of entitlement: Often envious of others or believe they are envious of them
What PDs are in Cluster C?
Avoidant PD
Dependant PD
OCPD
What are the key concepts for avoidant PD?
-Pattern of social inhibition
-Feelings of inadequency
-Hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
-4 or more contexts
What are the contexts where avoidant PD can be shown?
-Avoid jobs with a lot of social interactions
-Unwilling to get involved with people
-Shows restraints with intimate relationships of fear of being shamed or ridiculed
-Socially inept
-Reluctant to take personal risks or engage in any new activity
What are the key concepts to dependent PD?
-Need to be taken care of
-Submissive and clinging behaviour
-Fear of separation
-5 or more contexts
What are the contexts associated with dependant PD?
-Difficulty making everyday decision without advice or others input
-Others to assume responsibility for most of their life
-Difficulty expressing disagreement with others
-Urgently seeks another relationship when the previous one ends
-Unrealistically preoccupied with fears of being left to take care of themselves
What are the key concepts to OCPD?
-Preoccupied with orderliness, perfectionism, mental and interpersonal control
-At the expanse of flexibility, openness and efficiency
-4 or more contexts
What are some of the context associated with OCPD?
-Preoccupied with rules, lists, order, organization or schedules to the point of the activity is lost
-Perfectionism that interferes with task completion
-Devoted to work, waste of time with leisure activities
Reluctant to delegate tasks
