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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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1
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Personality disorders often have what responses to stress

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Inflexible and Maladaptive

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What percentage of US adults have at least one personality disorder

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15%

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Personality disorders have the capacity to do what?

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Frustrate others and evoke interpersonal conflict

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Define personality disorder.

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And enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that is stable overtime and leads to distress or impairment.

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Individuals that suffer from a personality disorder often have trouble in what type of relationships?

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Work and Love

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What are the three categories of a cluster A personality disorders?

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Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal.

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What defines cluster A personality disorders?

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Odd and eccentric

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Paranoid is what type of cluster personality disorder

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a

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Define a paranoid personality disorder.

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Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others and will interpret others’ motives as Malevolent.

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Define schizoid personality disorders.

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Detachment from a social relationship and a restricted emotional expression.

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Define schizotypal personality disorders.

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Acute discomfort in close relationships cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior. (They’re not psychotic, they do not lose contact with reality, and they can be made aware of their distorted thinking and reality)

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What are the Characteristics of a cluster B personality disorder.

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Dramatic and emotional.

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What are the four types of cluster B personality disorders.

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Borderline, narcissistic, antisocial, histrionic.

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Define borderline personality disorder.

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Instability in interpersonal relationships self image and marked impulsivity.

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Defined narcissistic personality disorder’s.

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Grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.

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Define antisocial personality disorder’s.

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Disregard for, and violation of the rights of others.

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Define histrionic personality disorders.

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Excessive emotionality and attention seeking.

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What are the characteristics of cluster C personality disorders?

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Anxious or fearful

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What are the three types of cluster C personality disorders?

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Obsessive-compulsive, avoidant, dependent.

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Define obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

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Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.

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Define avoidant personality disorder’s.

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Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.

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Define dependent personality disorder’s.

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Submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be taken care of.

23
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What are the nursing cares for cluster A personality disorders.

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Realize the client will probably not respond to efforts to build a relationship, and focus on the behavior and not the personality. Allow physical and emotional space to provide safety.

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What are the nursing care is for cluster B personality disorders?

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The nurse needs to set limits state clearly what she can and cannot do, and keep the schedule. Don’t be offended if criticized.

25
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Define splitting.

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View others and themselves in “all or nothing”. Leads to stormy relationships alternating between black-and-white use of others.

26
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What is didactical behavior therapy?

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DBT helps with excepting, finding meaning for, and tolerating distress.

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What are the nursing care is for cluster C personality disorders?

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Businesslike approach to OC-PD, clear and non-confusing directions. CBT to help clients reassess the situation and see alternate solutions. Help client to see age-appropriate tasks. Set limits on what you will do and what the client is expected to do for themselves.

28
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Which statement would be congruent with an odd/eccentric personality disorder?
A. I just can’t eat when I am alone
B. My dinner may have been poisoned
C. I have to wash my hands six times before eating
D. I am the best top chef ever.

A

B. My dinner may have been poisoned

29
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When do personality disorders often begin?

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Adolescence or early adulthood

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