Personality disorders Flashcards

1
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what are the classifications for personality disorder

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cluster A- odd and eccentric
cluster B - dramatic, emotional erratic
clusterC- anxious or fearful

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what disorders fall under cluster A

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paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal

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what disorders fall under cluster B

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Histrionic
Narcissistic
Borderline
Antisocial

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what disorders fall under cluster C

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Avoidant
dependent
obsessive-compulsive

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5
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paranoid

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distrust and suspiciousness of others

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Schizotypal

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reduced capacity for close relationships as well as perceptual distortions and eccentric behavior

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Schizoid

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detached from social relationships and restricted expression of emotions

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Antisocial

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disregard for others, violation of rights, lying, stealing and defaulting on debts

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boderline

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instability of interpersonal relationships, self image, affects and lack of control over impulses

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Histrionic

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excessively emotional and attention seeking

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Narcissistic

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grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy

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Dependent

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feelings of inadequacy, inability to making own decisions, submissive, avoidance of confrontation for fear of loosing support

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avoidant

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social inhibition

hypersensitive to negative evaluation

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obsessive-compulsive

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preoccupation with perfectionism, controlling, at the expense of flexibility openness and efficiency

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15
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who believes discontinuing prescribed therapy in the belief that herbal therapy is more effecitve

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dependent

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16
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who is noncompliant

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avoidant personality

17
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Misinterpretation leading to acting out, overdosing on a medication, who am I

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boderline personality

18
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Who worries about unusual side effects or belief that they are taking something harmful

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Schizotypal personality

19
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who goes into minor details while researching their medications

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obsessive-compulsive personality

20
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suspects without sufficient basis

  • preoccupied with unjustified doubts about loyalty of other
  • reads hidden threatening meanings into benign remarks
  • suspicious about loyalty of spouse
  • persistently bears grudges
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Paranoid

21
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  • neither desire nor enjoys close relationships
  • almost always chooses solitary activities
  • have little or any interest in having sexual experiences
  • emotionally cold, detached or flat affectively
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schizoid

22
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  • odd peculiar behavior, idiosyncratic speech and dress
  • difficulty with face to face communication
  • eccentric beliefs, paranoid tendencies, guarded
  • uncomfortable with physical exam
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Schizotypal

23
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  • superficially cooperative and charming
  • impulsive and manipulative
  • lack remorse
  • little or no regards for rights of others
  • deceitful
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Antisocial

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  • interpersonal problems
  • idealization and devaluation, splitting
  • impulsive, self destructive behavior
  • identity distrubance
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borderline

25
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  • uncomfortable in situations where they are not center of attention
  • seductive and proactive
  • rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotion
  • impressionistic and lack detail
  • suggestible
  • self dramatization, theatricality, exaggerated expression of emotion
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Histrionic

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  • Grandiose sense of self importance
  • preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love
  • require excessive admiration, interpersonally exploitative, self entitled
  • lacks empathy, envious, arrogance
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Narcissistic

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  • preoccupied with details, rules, lists to the extent that major point of activity is lost
  • perfectionism that interferes with task completion
  • devotion to work at expense of leisure activities and friendships
  • inflexibility for moral values and ethics, unable to discard worthless objects
  • reluctant to delegate tasks
  • miserly spending style towards self or others
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Obsessive-compulsive

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  • difficulty making everyday decisions without excessive amount of advice
  • needs others to assume responsibility of his or her life
  • difficulty expressing disagreement because of fear of loss of support or approval
  • difficulty initiating projects
  • urgently seeks another relationship as a source of support if one ends
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dependent

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  • avoid interpersonal contact due to fear of rejection, disapproval and criticism
  • unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
  • restraints within intimate relationship
  • feelings of inadequacy, inept and unappealing
  • reluctant to take personal risks because of fear of embarrassment
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Avoidant

30
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what is considered at first line managment

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psychotherapy

31
Q

Are there any medications approved by FDA for personality disorders

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no