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Personality disorders Flashcards

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Personality disorder

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  • Enduring pattern that deviates from expectation of individ. culture
  • Maifests in 2: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal or impulse control
  • Broad range of situations
  • Sig. distress and impairment
  • Stable and long duration
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Schizoid- Sx

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  • Detachment from social relationships
  • Restricted range of emotions
  • Doesn’t enjoy relationships
  • Little interest in sex
  • Indifferent to praise and critisims
  • Emotional coldness, detachment, flat affect
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Schizoid- Eti

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Manifests early

- Infreq in clinical settings

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Schizotypal- Sx

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  • Acute discomfort with close relationships
  • Eccentricities of behavior
  • Odd, magical beliefs
  • Odd thinking and speech
  • Suspicious/ paranoid
  • excessive social anxiety, paranoid fears
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Schizotypal- Tx

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  • Antipsych meds
  • CBT
  • Litium, mood stalizers
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Schizotypal- Eti

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  • High assoc with depression and anxiety

- Schizophrenia spectrum

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Paranoid- Sx

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  • Suspiciousness and distrust
  • Recurrent suspicions of spouse, partner
  • Preoccupied with doubts of loyalty
  • Bears grudges
  • Reluctant to confide
  • Reads hidden meaning into benign remarks
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Paranoid- Tx

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  • Antipsych

- CBT

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Antisocial- Sx

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  • Disregard for and violation of rights of others
  • Fail to conform to laws
  • Lack of remorse
  • Arrests
  • Lying, conning, aliases
  • Impulsive, agressive, irritable, irresponsible
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Antisocial- Eti

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M>W

  • Antisocial father, low education, bullying, criminal
  • Developmental lack of emotional support
  • Most tx refractory
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Antisocial- Tx

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  • SSRIs
  • Antipsychs
  • CBT, group
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Borderline- Sx

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  • Instability of interpersonal relationships and impulsivity
  • Effort to avoid abandonment
  • Unstable self image or sense of self
  • Self damaging impulsivity
  • Chronic feelings of emptiness
  • Spending, sex, substance abuse, binge eating
  • Difficulty controlling anger
  • Suicidal behaviors
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Borderline- Eti

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F>M

  • Common in clinical settings
  • Childhood abuse
  • Genetic factors- anxiety, lability and instability
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Borderline- Tx

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  • Dialectical behavior tx
  • Tx symptoms
  • Avoid benzos
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Histrionic- Sx

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Excessive emotionality and attention seeking

  • Sexual, seductive
  • Shallow, shifting emotions
  • Appearance to draw attention
  • Easily suggestible
  • Relationships more intimate than they are
  • Self-dramatization, theatricality
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Histrionic- Tx

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  • Anxiety and depression
  • CBT in group
  • Time, social feedback
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Narcissistic- Sx

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  • Need for admiration, lack of empathy
  • Grandiose sense of self importance
  • Preoccupied with fantasies
  • Special and unique
  • Entitlement
  • Interpersonally exploitive
  • Envious of others, want others to be envious of them
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Narcissistic- Tx

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  • Therapy
  • Little role for meds
  • Worsen over time
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Avoidant- Sx

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  • Inadequacy, hypersensativity to negative emotion
  • Avoid activities involving interpersonal contact
  • Unwilling to get involved with people
  • Restrained intimate relationships
  • Preoccupation with criticism
  • Views self as inept, unappealing, inferior
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Avoidant- Tx

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  • SSRIs, MAOIs, Beta blockers for social phobia
  • Group tx
  • CBT
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Dependent- Sx

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  • Excessive need to be taken care of, clinging, fears of separation
  • difficulty making decisions
  • others assume responsibility for areas of life
  • difficulty expressing disagreement
  • lack of self confidence
  • Fear of being able to care for self
  • Preoccupied with being left alone
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Dependent- Eti

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  • Common in HC

- F>M

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Dependent- Tx

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  • Meds for anxiety, depression

- Psychotherapy

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Obsessive-compulsive PD- Sx

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  • Orderlieness, perfectionism, mental and interpersonal control
  • Lack flexibility, openness and efficiency
  • Preoccupied with details, lists, order, organization
  • Perfectionism interferes with task completion
  • Excessively devoted to work
  • Rigid and stubborn
  • Miserly spending style
  • Hoarding
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Obsessive-compulsive PD- Eti

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M>F

  • Egosyntonic with obsessions and orderliness
  • Depression, dysthymia, generalized anxiety
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Obsessive-compulsive PD- Tx

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  • SSRIs and TCAs may help

- Group, marital tx

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