Personality Disorders Flashcards
General Personality Disorder
- enduring pattern of behavior that is markedly deviated from culturally sanctioned behavior
- manifest symptoms that are affective, cognitive, impulsive control, interpersonal (at least 2 of these areas)
- very inflexible and pervasive, enduring
- don’t need to have mood contingent
- personality disorders don’t require an affect to go along with it
- need to have perceived onset at or around adolescence or early adulthood
Cluster A
- odd, eccentric
- paranoid
- schizoid
- schizotypal
Cluster B
- dramatic, emotional, theatrical, erratic
- antisocial
- borderline
- histrionic
- narcissistic
Cluster C
- fearful, anxious
- avoidant
- dependent
- obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Paranoid Personality Disorder
- pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of everyone
- they are always suspicious of people whether or not they are nice or mean
Schizoid Personality Disorder
- detachment from social relationships
- really struggle with interpersonal relationships
- schizoid does not need social neglect
- no secure attachments
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- similar issues around interpersonal deficits
- cognitive or perceptual distortions or eccentricities of behaviors
- odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior, unusual delusions, some suspicious and paranoid ideations
Antisocial Personality Disorder
- pervasive disregard and violation of other people
- they don’t care about the well being of others
- needs to occur at age 15 (conduct disorder) but cannot diagnose until 18
Borderline Personality Disorder
- the most excited and the most traumatizing and difficult and lovable patients
- you feel drawn to them and the need to help them and support them
- “shell of a person”, “no real personality”,”there is nothing behind it, feel like they are empty”
- pervasive pattern of unstable interpersonal relationships, self image and affect marked by impulsivity and rapid changes in mood
Histrionic Personality Disorder
- pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking behaviors often times geared through seductive and sexual inappropriate behaviors
- using body to gain attention–very attention seeking, very shallow shifts of emotional expressions
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- always challenging you
- pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy
- if they see you as equal footing they will seek approval to confirm their greatness
- can be very exploitative and manipulative
Avoidant Personality Disorder
- pervasive pattern of social inhibition and hyper sensitivity to negative evaluations
- try to avoid situations that can make them be evaluated
Dependent Personality Disorder
- need to be taken care of that makes them fear separation
- could look like reactive attachment, separation anxiety disorder
- can latch onto anyone
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
- no relief for this disorder
- there’s rigidity around a specific thought and behavior
Define the dimensional approach towards personality disorders.
It covers personality functions and traits, the personality functions including self (identity, self direction) and interpersonal (empathy, intimacy) and personality traits are 25 of them which can be categorized into 5 categories.
