Personality Disorders Flashcards
Behavioral features of personality disorders
- Lack of insight
- Anxiety
- Impulsivity
- Displacement
- Create crisis
- Rigid
- Inflexible
- Difficulty adapting
Paranoid Personality Disorder pattern (3)
Distrust, suspiciousness, others’ motives are interpreted as malevolent
Paranoid Personality Disorder symptoms (5)
- Hypervigilant
- Constantly on guard
- Avoid interaction with others
- Intimidating
- Bears grudges
Schizoid Personality Disorder pattern (2)
Detachment from social relationships, restricted range of emotional expression
Schizoid Personality Disorder (7)
- Lifelong pattern of social withdrawal
- Unsociable
- Prefer to work alone
- Cold
- Aloof
- Indifferent
Schizotypal Personality Disorder pattern
ACUTE discomfort in close relationships; cognitive or perceptual distortions; eccentricities of behavior
Schizotypal symptoms (8)
- Magical thinking
- Unusual perceptual experiences
- Odd beliefs
- Ideas of reference
- Suspiciousness
- Paranoia
- Inappropriate affect
- Lack of close friends
Antisocial Personality Disorder pattern
Disregard for others, violation of others’ rights
Antisocial symptoms (8)
- Inability to conform to social norms
- Consistent irresponsibility
- Repeated lying
- Lack of remorse
- Irritability
- Aggressiveness
- Deceitfulness
- At least 18 years old
Histrionic Personality Disorder pattern
Excessive emotionality and attention seeking
Histrionic Personality Disorder symptoms
- Difficulty maintaining long lasting relationships
- Colorful
- Dramatic
- Extroverted behavior
- Self-dramatizing
- Attention seeking
- Overly gregarious
- Seductive
Narcissistic Personality Disorder pattern
Grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy
Narcissistic Personality Disorder symptoms
- Exaggerated sense of self-worth
- Hypersensitive to the eval of others
- Believe they are entitled to special rights and privileges because they see themselves as superior
- Optimistic, relaxed, cheerful mood
- Exploitation of others for self-gratification - impairs relationships
Avoidant Personality Disorder pattern
Social Inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
Avoidant Personality Disorder Symptoms
- Sensitive to rejection
- Socially isolates
- Awkward
- Uncomfortable
- Slow constrained speech
- Frequent hesitations
- Lonely
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder pattern
Preocupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder symptoms
- Disciplined
- Perfectionistic
- Preoccupied
- Lack of spontaneity
- Inflexible
- Meticulous
- Rank conscious
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) pattern
Pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects, and marked impulsivity
BPD symptoms
- Intense and chaotic relationships
- Affective instability
- Fluctuation attitudes
- Clingy
- Splitting
- Self destructive
- Always in crisis
- Depression
- Inability to be alone
Goal of personality disorder treatment
Reduce the inflexibility of personality features that interfere with functioning and relationships
What kind of therapy is great for personality disorder?
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Counter-Transference
Nurse’s behavioral and emotional response to the patient
- Feelings may be r/t unresolved feelings towards others in the nurse’s past
- Feelings are triggered by pt’s behavior
