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What is a personality

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Combination of traits that stay stable across situations but can chang over time

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What is a personality disorder

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Pattern of behavior that is deviant from a person’s cultural norms

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Explain what individuals with personality disorders

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They are on the extreme end, suffer distress or impairment, have trouble RELATING to OTHERS, 2/3 have 2X PD diagnosis

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What did Szasz think

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Is it part of you or not

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What is OCD

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Dystonic, not part of identity

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What is OCPD

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Syntonic, part of identity

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What is the DSM description of PDs

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Impairments with pathological personality that is relatively stable

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Why has the PD category been criticized

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Lack of scientific rigor from freud

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Did they try to dro pthe PD categories in the DSM

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Yes

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What did the DSM-5 propose

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Dimensional alternative that focused on: PERSONALITY functions and PATHOLOGICAL personality traits

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What is personality functioning

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Impaiment in functioning along a continum

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What is HiTOP

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Hierarchical taxonomy of psychopatholoy, DIMENSIONAL alternative with a spectra

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What does HiTOP do

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Meet the pt where their symptoms are

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What is antisocial PD

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Breaking the LAW, disregard for social NORMS, lack of GUILT and REMORSE

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What is the DSM list for antisocial PD

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Since the age of 15, diganosed at 18, with evidence of CONDUCT disorder

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Why is antisocial PD more common in lower SES

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Downward drift theory

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What is axoidant PD

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Avoids relationships due to FEAR of rejection

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What is OCPD

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Lack of SPONTANEITY with excess ATTENTION to detail

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What do people with OCPD struggle with

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Finishing projects

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What is borderline PD

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unstable RELATIONSHIPS, fear of ABANDONMENT, unrealistic SELF-IMAGE, self-DESTRUCTIVE behavior

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Is borderline PD over disgnosised

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Yes

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What is narcissistic PD

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inflated self-image and need for attention, thinks they are the best thing ever, hard time taking CRITICISM

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What is schizotypal PD

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Difficulty forming relaitonships due to below threshold schizophrenia with magical thinking and inappropriate social responses

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What is the dark triad

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Narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy

25
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What is narcissism correlated with

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Higher salaries

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What is machiavellianism

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Manipulation

27
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What is machiavellianism correlated with

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Positions of leadership

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What is psychopathy

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Lacking empthy

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Is psychopathy maladaptive or adaptive

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Both adaptive when in combination

30
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What is the scale for the dark triad

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Jonason and Webster, average of 33

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What is Hand Kohut’s self psychology belief

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In childhood we have healthy narcissism and then it doesn’t go away

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What is Otto Kernbergs belief

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Splitting of the self after not figuring out their identy

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What is Margaret Mahler’s beliefs

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Separation-individuation fails with the relationship with mothers

34
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What is the focus of the cognitive-learning perspective related to PDs

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Childhodd reinforcement of negative behaviors

35
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What can excessive control lead to

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OCPD

36
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What can excessive restriction lead to

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AvoidantPD

37
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What can lead to a narcissistic PD

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Rewards related to performance

38
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What can lead to antisocial PD

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Don’t see people as reinforcers, or gets attention from acting out

39
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What is problem-solving therapy related to PDs

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Train antisocial adolescents to view negative social interactions as problems to be SOLVED rather than threats to SELF

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What is dislectical-behavior therapy related to PDs

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Analysis of behaviors and how to be better and match ideal actions, most COMMON

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What is teh biological perspective realted to PDs

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have genetic and biological bases, hard to separate out the influence of the environment

42
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What is the biological aspect of antisocial PD

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Low epinephrin leads to lack of anxiety

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What is the biological treatment for PDs

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antidepressants to remove anxity

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What is the sociocultural perspective of PDs

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Excessive versions of socially reinforce characteristics, arbitray, medicalizing violation of social norms

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