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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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What were the 2 main empirical approaches to measuring personality in the 1950s/1960s?

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  • Measuring personality traits: viewed personality as a series of states which were not necessarily consistent over time
  • Psychoanalytically informed tradition: Saw personality based on early experience
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Out of 2000 adults how many were said to have a personality disorder?

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25

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Who has a higher personality disorder rate, men or women?

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Women, 54/1,000

Men, 34/1,000

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Where do there have to be patterns in at least 2 areas to have a personality disorders

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  • Cognition
  • Emotion
  • Relationships
  • Impulse control
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What is the 5-factor model of personality?

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Neuroticism, extraversion/introversion, openness to experience, agreeableness/antagonism, and conscientiousness

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What does the dimensional approach involve personality do?

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  • It involves rating each individual on the five factors
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What is high extraversion personalities linked to?

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Narcissistic disorder

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What are low extraversion personalities linked to?

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Linked to disorders that involve social isolation, such as schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant personality disorders

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What are features of paranoid personality disorders?

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  • Shun close relationships; trust issues
  • Excessive trust in the own ideas and abilities
  • Expect to be hurt
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What is a paranoid personality an extension of?

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antisocial, narcissistic, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, usually emerging when person is under extreme stress

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How do therapists go about dealing with paranoid people?

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They agree that the world is a threatening place in certain times & ways, but help to distinguish real threats from perceived ones

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What is a schizoid personality disorder?

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  • Do not yearn for close ties with anyone, and avoid social contact because they prefer to be alone
  • No interest in sex or marriage
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How are schizoid personalities influenced?

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  • Biologically: dopamine

- Early childhood trauma: abuse, neglect

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What is a schizotypal disorder?

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Milder than schizophrenia

  • Belief that others are watching, talking about them
  • Talk to themselves, speak vaguely, ramble
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What are the influences for a schizotypal personality disorder?

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  • Dopamine

- Abuse

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What is a histrionic personality disorder?

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  • Lives in a dramatic emotionally contact pursuit of attention
  • Elaborates on small events
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What are people with a histrionic personality disorder constantly in need of?

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Praise and reassurance, look for authority figures to solve with problems

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What are a histrionic personality disorders persons views on themselves?

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General feelings of unattractive of lack of intelligence

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What are histrionic personality sufferers encouraged to do in therapy?

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Express their feelings, opinions and preferences without fear of rejection and are taught assertiveness

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What is borderline personality disorder?

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Sufferers are painfully uncertain of themselves, image, sexual orientation, life goals & values

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What are borderline personality sufferers prone to?

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  • Depression & anxiety and impulsive behaviour
22
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What influences are there to develop borderline personality disorder?

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  • Family dysfunction
  • Parental neglect
  • Physical and emotional trauma
23
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What is the bed type of therapy for those suffering with borderline personality disorder?

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Establish predictable boundaries.
Therapist needs to take active & supportive role; and help sufferer recognise destructive, maladaptive aspects of behaviour and uncover the underlying needs and motives

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What is the narcissistic personality disorder?

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Pervasive fantasies of success, beauty, or remarkable talent with extreme self-focus

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How do sufferers with narcissistic personality disorders actually feel?

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Worthless, wounded

26
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What % of narcissistic personality disorder sufferer regularly check their reflection in store mirrors?

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22%

27
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What % of people with narcissistic personality disorders steal glances of themselves occasionally in shop windows?

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6%

28
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What % of narcissistic personality disorder sufferers never check their reflection in store mirrors?

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9%

29
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What is narcissistic injury?

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When the person is temporarily overwhelmed by personal failure or through rejection but abates relatively rapidly

30
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What is anti-social personality disorder?

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  • Life long history of misconduct

- No steady job, indifference to others, self focused and aggressive

31
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What is the likelihood of men having anti-social personality disorder over women?

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5 x more likely

32
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What are some influences on developing anti-social personality disorder?

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  • Parental hostility
  • Severe socioeconomic hardship
  • Parental or societal abuse
33
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What is an obsessive-complusive personality disorder?

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  • They must do everything right

- Need to meet such high standards that tasks remain unfinished because they cannot be good enough

34
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What are some influences of obsessive-complusive personality disorder?

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  • One parent unlike at expressing love and affection
  • Taking on responsibility too quickly due to a dysfunctional family
  • Serotonin
35
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What kind of treatments are there for people with obsessive-complusive personality disorder?

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Social skills training, relaxation training, encouraging risk training, cognitive techniques to gain flexibility

36
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What is avoidant personality disorder?

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They’re so fearful of rejection that they do not give anyone an opportunity to reject them, or accept them

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What is the treatment for avoidant personality disorder?

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Drugs can be used, desensitisation to rejection, assertiveness training, social skills training, and cognitive therapy

38
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What is a dependent personality disorder?

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  • Rely on others to make small decisions
  • Can’t do projects alone
  • Needy of praise
39
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What % of women would rather give up sex for a whole year than their phone for a weekend?

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30%

40
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What % of women would rather loose their engagement ring over their phone?

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50%

41
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What are some problems with personality disorders diagnosis?

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  • Huge overlap, therefore low reliability

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