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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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Nomathetic

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  • Looking at general statistics

* Looking at clusters, patterns & trends

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Idiographic

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• Looking at the individual cases

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What are the components of Rogina’s model for treating anger disorders & personality disorders

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  1. Awareness
  2. Confrontation
  3. Confession
  4. Forgiveness
  5. Meaningful living behaviors
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Awareness in Rogina’s model for treating anger disorders & personality disorders

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  • Aware of what they are doing
  • Provoking awareness of conscious, creating discomfort
  • Hyper-reflection on violent threats, behaviors and on how others view them
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Confrontation in Rogina’s model for treating anger disorders & personality disorders

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  • To confront what they have done

* ex: One can act badly, but that does not mean that the person is inherently bad.

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Confession in Rogina’s model for treating anger disorders & personality disorders

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• Using the noetic dimension technique = person has capacity to be spiritual (w/e that means to the person)

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Forgiveness in Rogina’s model for treating anger disorders & personality disorders

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  • Asking for forgiveness from people/persons that they have hurt.
  • Forgiving the self
  • Dereflection: Focusing on meaningful goals
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Meaningful living behaviors in Rogina’s model for treating anger disorders & personality disorders

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• Behaviors leading to be responsible

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Cluster B - Personality Disorder

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Dramatic, impulsive or emotional personality characteristics

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Anti-social personality disorder: 1st requirement

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• Individual must have a continual pattern of disregard for and violation of other occurring since age 15
•3 or more of the patterns listed below
A. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
B. Deceitfulness, repeated lying, use of false identity, conning others for personal profit or pleasure
C. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead, lack consequential thinking
D. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights & assaults
E. Consistent irresponsibility. Indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
F. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
G. Lack of remorse, Lack of guilt

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Anti-social personality disorder: 2nd requirement

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The individual is at least 18 years of age.

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Anti-social personality disorder: 3rd requirement

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Anti-social behavior is not exclusively during a schizophrenic or manic episode

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Anti-social personality disorder: 4th requirement

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Conduct disorder has been diagnosed with onset before 15 years of age

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What is conduct disorder?

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• requirements of repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which basic rights of others w/ 3 or more of the criterion & at least 1 of the criterion is present over the past 6 months.

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What is criterion A in conduct disorder?

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•Aggression to people and animals

  1. Bullies
  2. Initiates physical fights
  3. Used of threatens use of a weapon
  4. Been physically cruel to people or animals
  5. Using force or threat and stealing (mugging, extortion (ex: taking $, robbery)
  6. Forced sexual behavior
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What is criterion B in conduct disorder?

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• Destruction of property

  1. Fire setting
  2. Destroyed property non-fire.
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What is criterion C in conduct disorder?

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• Deceitfulness or theft

  1. Burglary
  2. Vehicle theft
  3. Cons
  4. Shoplifting/forgery
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What is criterion D in conduct disorder?

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  • Serious violation of rules
  • Running away at 13 or older
  • Not going to school
  • And disturbances cases significant social, academic & occupational function.
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V - Validity Index

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• How valid the statement is

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X - Disclosure Index

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• How much the person is willing to talk about the issues

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Y - Desirability Index

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• Degree to which the person looks favorable instead of being truthful

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MCMI

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  • The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
  • instrument provides a measure of 24 personality disorders and clinical syndromes for adults undergoing psychological or psychiatric assessment or treatment.
  • Specifically designed to help assess both Axis I and Axis II disorders
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What are the 3 Severe Personality Scales on MCMI- IIIr

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  • Scale S: Schizotypal
  • Scale P: Paranoid
  • Scale C: Borderline
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Scale C; Borderline

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A. Patients experience intense endogenous moods (moods coming from w/ in)
B. Recurring periods of dejection (sad) followed by Apathy (indifferent)
C. Grievance (a real or imagined wrong) Collecting followed by abandonment Anxiety/ Panic
D. Dejection (sad) & apathy scattered with anger/rage-rants; anxiety; sudden state of intense happiness
E. Distinguishing factors from paranoia - schizotypal are the dysregulation of their affect/emotions. Reoccurring thoughts are suicidal, self mutilation in threats or actual attempts, feel better after those attempts. (ex. girl in the movie)
F. Preoccupation with securing affection & difficulty maintaining a clear sense of identity
G. Displaying ambivalence (mixed feelings) in simultaneous feelings of rage, love & guilt towards others.

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What is a case of anti-social disorder?

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  • The case example from the casebook: murray

- Showed symptoms: deceitfulness, disregarded emotions & rights of others, lacked empathy, lacked guilt, charming, smart

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What is a case example of borderline personality disorder?

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  • Case example of melina
  • Melina experienced intense endogenous moods, Dejection (sad) & apathy scattered with anger/rage-rants; anxiety; sudden state of intense happiness,Preoccupation with securing affection & difficulty maintaining a clear sense of identity, wrist banging (possibly linked to suicidal thoughts)
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What is a difference between a psychopath & an individual with ASPD?

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  • ASPD: Must have been diagnosed w/ conduct disorder by age of 15

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