Personality Disorders

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Enduring pattern of inner experience or behavior that deviates from expectations of culture

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personality disorders

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more common than autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder combined

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borderline personality disorder

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Cluster includes paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal

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cluster A

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cluster includes antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic

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cluster B

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Cluster includes avoidant, OCD, dependent

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cluster C

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Marked by eccentricity, odd behavior, not psychosis. Share a superficial similarity with schizophrenia

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Cluster A personality disorders

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Lack of trust in others. Fear that friends may be disloyal, unfaithful. Being hypersensitive, overly suspicious, perceived as hostile

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paraonid personality disorder

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Treatment of paranoid personality disorder

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cognitive behavioral therapy and SSRIs

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Detachment from social relationships, restricted emotions. Least commonly diagnosed. Need to meet 4 criteria

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Schizoid personality disorder

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Criteria include: desires nor enjoys social relationships, prefers solitary activities, has little interest in sexual experiences, indifferent to praise or criticism, detached, flat affect

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schizoid personality disorder

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Treatment for schizoid and schizotypal personality disorder

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Social skills training. Low dose antipsychotics or antidepressants

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Acute discomfort with social relationships, eccentric behavior. odd, peculiar thinking and behavior. Need to meet 5 criteria

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schizotypal personality disorder

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Sx include: ideas of reference, odd beliefs, unusual perceptual experiences, odd speech. Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation. Excessive social anxiety

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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The feeling that casual incidents and external events have a particular and unusual meaning that is specific to the person

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ideas of reference

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there is a belief that is held with delusional conviction. Ex-Believing that ‘somehow everyone on a passing city bus is talking about them, yet they may be able to acknowledge this is unlikely

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delusion of reference

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Difference between schizoid and schizotypal disorders

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Schizotypal patients avoid social interaction because of a fear of people. Schizoid individuals feel no desire to form relationships

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Dramatic, emotional and erratic. Being self-absorbed, prone to exaggerate importance of events. Having difficulty maintaining close relationships

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cluster B personality disorders

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Pattern of disregard for rights of others since age 15. Can be very charming, likeable. Needs to meet three criteria

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antisocial personality disorder

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Criteria include: failure to conform to social norms, respect lawful behavior, conning others for profit or pleasure, impulsivity, aggressiveness, repeated fights

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antisocial personality disorder

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reckless disregard for safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, failure to honor obligations, lack of remorse. Evidence of conduct disorder before age 15

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antisocial personality disorder

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Higher rates in prisons, forensic settings and substance abuse treatment programs

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antisocial personality disorder

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Treatment for antisocial personality disorder

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anger management, group therapy, medication

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instability of mood, self-image, interpersonal relationships frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. unrealistically positive or negative opinions about others

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borderline personality disorder

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Diagnosed more often in women. Threats/actions of self-harm are common. Black and White thinking. High suicide rates

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borderline personality disorder

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disconnect between orbital frontal cortex and amygdala→ failure to downregulate amygdala in response to aversive stimuli

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borderline personality disorder

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treatment of choice for borderline personality disorder

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Dialectical behavioral therapy (in group and individual basis)

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Enduring pattern of thinking, behavior characterized by excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior. Person is typically self-centered, vain, demanding. Dresses eccentrically, seductively

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Excessive emotionality, attention-seeking and needs to meet 5 criteria

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histrionic personality disorder

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Criteria include: uncomfortable when not center of attention, sexually seductive behavior, rapidly shifting moods, speech is excessively impressionistic, easily influenced, considers relationships more intimate than they are

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histrionic personality disorder

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Treatment of histrionic

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CBT and group therapy

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Grandiosity in fantasy and behavior, need for admiration, lack of empathy. Need to meet 5 criteria

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Criteria includes: grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupied with fantasies of power, success, love, believes he or she is special or unique, lacks empathy, arrogant, haughty

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Treatment of narcissistic personality disorder

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Anger management
Psychotherapy (for Axis I)
Group therapy

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Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation. Needs to meet 4 criteria

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avoidant personality disorder

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Criteria include: Avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact, restraint with intimate relationships, preoccupied with being criticized, Views self as socially inept

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avoidant personality disorer

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One of the most prevalent PD’s in the general population ranging from 2.1% to 7.9%

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OCD personality disorder

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Criteria include: Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion, excessively devoted to work and productivity, Rigid and stubborn, preoccupied with order/organization

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OCD personality disorder

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Treatment of OCD personality disorder

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CBT, no research which medications work

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Criteria includes: difficulty making decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others. Needs others to assume responsibility for major areas of his or her life. difficulty expressing disagreement with others difficulty initiating projects

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dependent personlity disodre

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Treatment of dependent personality disorder

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medication for specific symptoms, CBT, psychodynamic