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Personality disorders Flashcards

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What are characteristics of cluster a personality disorders

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Uncomfortable in interpersonal situations
Emotionally distant
Distrustful, suspicious
Isolative
Interpret others actions as negative, possibly against them
aloof

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What are cluster b personality disorders

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Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcissistic

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What are characteristics of cluster b personality disorders

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Excessive and unstable expression of emotion
manipulative interpersonal relationships
disregard for others feelings or rights

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What are cluster c personality disorders

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avoidant
dependent
obsessive-compulsive personality (different from ocd)

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What are characteristics of cluster c personality disorders

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Anxious
social discomfort
sense of helplessness
inability to make decisions-rely on others
perfectionist-where obsessive personality comes in
inflexible

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Which cluster has the strongest genetic assossiation

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Cluster A

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What are biological factors attributed personality disorders

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Hormones, platelet monamine oxidase, neurotransmitters (serotonin)
Overactive amygdala
underactive prefrontal cortex

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What are environmental factors attributed to personality disorders

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40-71% of those w/ BPD have a hx of sexual abuse by non caregiver
family environments which are non-validating (needs aren’t met, feelings aren’t validated, have problems w/ ER

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What is the impact of personality disorders on social

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odd
distrustful
limited interpersonal skills

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What is the impact on emotional modulation

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changes emotions quickly and unpredictably
expression of emotion is intense
impulsivity w/ emotional modulation problems can lead to self-harm behaviors

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What are the impacts on coping

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limited coping skills (daily life, esp interpersonal relationships)

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What do personality disorders affect

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social participation
emotional modulation
coping

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Medication for personality disorders

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(Limited research on this)
low dose anti-psychotic
mood stabilizer

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OT interventions

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Understand defense mechanism
Est. a therapeutic relationship
Work on occupational dysfunction: grade activities, new ways to adapt and respond to change, affect modulation, appropriate expression of emotion, interpersonal skills

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What is splitting

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undoing of entire team. Pinning people against eachother.

manipulation of people to get their needs met

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What’s the biosocial theory of BPD

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Caused by joint outcome of biological disposition, environmental context and the transaction of the 2 during development. BPD have difficulty regulating emotions. This disregulation is caused by emotional vulnerability and by manipulative and inadequate emotion modulation strategies.

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emotional vulnerability characteristics w/ bpd

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very high sensitivity to emotional stimuli
very intense response to emotional stimuli
slow return to baseline once emotional arousal has occurred

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characteristics of emotional modulation of bpd

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unable to inhibit inappropriate behavior related to strong or negative or positive emotion
unable to organize oneself for coordinated action in the service of an external goal (act in a way that’s not mood dependent when necessary)
self-soothe any physiological arousal that motion has induced can’t self-soothe)
Cant refocus attention in the presence of a strong emotion

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What is BPD

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Combo of emotional response system that’s oversensitive and over reactive w/ the inability to modulate the strong emotions and actions associated w/ them

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What are emotions a combo of

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physiological arousal
subjective experience
behavioral/affective expression

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What are the systems involved in emotional regulation

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Nervous

Endocrine

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What are the basic emotions

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Mad
happy
sad
scared

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What is emotional regulation

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efforts to control emotional states (necessary for functional occ. performance)

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what is emotional dysregulation

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emotional responses that aren’t adaptive to the particular situation. Response that interferes w/ goal-directed behavior

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What’s dialectical behavior therapy

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Combo of individual psychotherapy w/ psychosocial skills training
requires additional training
lots of research behind it
can be group or individual

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What is typically not done by OT’s

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Psychotherapy

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What is a good fit for OT

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Skills training

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What are the 4 areas DBT skills training works on

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Mindfulness
Interpersonal effectiveness
Emotional regulation
Distress tolerance

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What is mindfulness

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Being aware, being preset, not passing a lot of judgement

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What is interpersonal effectiveness

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effective ways of achieving objectives w/ other people

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What is distress tolerance

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ways to put up w/ emotional states when you can’t change them

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What are cluster a personality disorders

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Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal

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