Personality Disorders Flashcards
What are the key features of personality disorder? (ICD-11)
Persistent pattern - pattern of cognition, emotional experience, behavior and interpersonal functioning.
Impairment - Significant problems in persons life and relationships.
Duration.
Distress or dysfunction,
Severity classification in ICD-11?
Mild personality disorder - some impairments in functioning limited to specific areas of life.
Moderate - More significant impairment. Individual may struggle with maintaining close relationships.
Severe - profound impairments in all areas of life. Significant distress and dysfunction.
What does negative affectivity mean?
Tendency to experiance wide range of negative emotions
What is dissociality?
Disregard for rights and feelings of others. Lack of empathy
What is anakastia?
Preoccupation with orderliness, control and perfectionism
Features of paranoid personality disorder?
Hypersensitivity and unforgiving attitude when insulted.
Unwarranted tendency to question loyalties of friends.
Reluctant to confide in others.
Preoccupation with conspirational beliefs.
Perceive attacks on character.
Features of schizoid personality disorder?
Indifference to praise/critisism,
Preference for solitary activities,
Lack of interest in sexual interactions.
Lack of desire for companionshio,
Emotional coldness,
Few interests,
Few friends
Features of schizotypal personality disorder?
Odd beliefs and magical thinking,
Perceptual disturbances,
Paranoid ideation,
Odd, eccentric behaviour,
Lack of close friends,
Odd speech without being incoherent.
Features of antisocial personality disorder?
Failure to conform to social norms with respects to lawful behaviours.
More common in men.
Deception/lies/use of aliase or conning others for personal profit.
Impulsiveness,
Irritability and aggressiveness.
Reckless disregard for saftey.
Lack of remorse.
Features of borderline personality disorder?
Efforts to avoid abandonment.
Unstable interpersonal relationships with alternate between idealization and devaluation.
Unstable self image,
Impulsivity,
Recurrent suicidal behaviour,
Chronic feelings of emptiness,
Histrionic personality disorder features?
Inappropriate sexual seductiveness,
Need to be center of attention,
Rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions,
Suggestibility,
Physical appearance used to attention seeking
Features of narcissistic personality disorder?
Grandiose sence of self importance,
Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success,
Sense of entitlement,
Taking advantage of others to achieve needs.
Lack of empathy,
Excessive need for admiration,
Chronic envy,
Arrogant attitude.
Features of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
Occupied with details/rules/lists/organisation.
Perfectionism hampers with completing tasks.
Extremely dedicated to work and efficiency.
Meticulous, rigid about etiquettes of morality, ethics or values.
Unwilling to pass on tasks unless do exactly their way of doing it.
Stingy spending.
Features of avoidant personality disorder?
Avoidance of activities which involves significant interpersonal contact.
Preoccupied with ideas they are being criticised/rejected in social situations.
Unwilling to be involved unless certain of being liked.
Views seld as inept and inferior.
Features of dependent personality disorder?
Difficulty making decisions without excessive reassurance,
Difficulty expressing disagreement with others,
Lack of intuition,
Excessive effort to obtain support from others.
