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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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General DSM V Criteria for Personality Disorders

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Enduring pattern of inner experience or behavior that deviates from expectations of culture, manifested in two or more of the following:

  • cognition (perception of self, others)
  • affectivity (intensity, range of emotions)
  • interpersonal functioning
  • impulse control
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What are the disorders classified in:

  • cluster A
  • Cluster B
  • Cluster C
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A: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal. (Odd or eccentric) NO PSYCHOSIS

B: Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic. (dramatic, emotional, erratic)

C: avoidant, Obsessive-compulsive, dependent (anxious or fearful)

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Paranoid Personality Disorder:

  • clinical features
  • DSM V criteria
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Features:

  • excessive suspiciousness and distrust of others
  • pathologically jealous and for no reason question fidelity of their spouse/sexual partner
  • easily insulted/hostile

DSM V: pervasive distrust, suspicion of others, and 4 or more of the following:

  • suspects others are exploiting, harming, or decieving them
  • preoccupied with unjustified doubts of loyalty or trustworthiness of people
  • reluctant to confide in others b/c of fear it will be used maliciously against them
  • reads hidden, demeaning, threatening meaning into benign actions
  • persistently bears grudges
  • perceives attacks on reputation
  • has unjustified suspicion of fidelity of others.
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Tx of Paranoid Personality Disorder

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CBT
SSRI

Haldol or Valium for agitation/anxiety

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DSM V Criteria for Schizoid Personality Disorder

Schizoid may resemble which other disorder?

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Detachment from social relationships, restricted emotions, as indicated by 4 or more of the following:

  • neither desires nor enjoys social relationships
  • prefers solitary activities
  • has little interest in sexual experiences
  • pleasure from few activities
  • lack close friends
  • appears indifferent to praise or criticism
  • shows emotional coldness, detachment, flat affect.

Schizoid may look like autism spectrum disorder.

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Schizoid Personality Disorder:

-Tx

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Social skills training, group therapy +/- anti-psychotics/antidepressants

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DSM V Criteria for Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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acute discomfort with social relationships, eccentric behavior, and 5 or more of the following:

  • ideas of reference
  • odd beliefs
  • unusual perceptual experiences
  • odd speech
  • suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
  • inappropriate or constricted affect
  • odd or eccentric appearance and behavior
  • lack of close friends
  • excessive social anxiety
  • magical thinking, clairvoyance (psychic)
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder Tx

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Group Therapy = Tx of choice

+/- anti-psychotics/antidepressants

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What are the main similarities and differences between schizoid an schizotypal personality disorders?

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Similarities:
-inability to initiate or maintain friendly and romantic relationships

Differences:

  • Schiztypal: pts avoid social interaction b/c of fear of people (lonely and sad)
  • schizoid: individuals feel no desire to form relationships.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder DSM V Dx Criteria

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pattern of disregard for rights of others as indicated by 3 or more of the following:

  • failure to conform to social norms, respect lawful behavior
  • deceitfulness, lying, conning others for profit or pleasure
  • impulsivity, failure to plan ahead
  • irritability, aggressiveness, repeated fights
  • reckless disregard for safety of others
  • consistent irresponsibility, failure to honor obligations
  • lack of remorse
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Tx of Anti-social personality disorder

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anger management (harm reduction)

medication to tx impulsivity, aggressiveness, and violence

Group therapy w/ other APD pts

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Borderline Personality Disorder DSM V Dx Criteria

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Instability in mood*, relationships, self-image, marked impulsivity, andd 5 or more of the following:

  • frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment*
  • pattern of unstable, intense relationship
  • identity disturbance
  • impulsivity in two or more areas that are self-damaging
  • recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, threats (self harm)
  • affective instability
  • chronic feelings of emptiness
  • inappropriate intense anger
  • transient, stress-related paranoid ideas

Black and white thinking

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Tx of Borderline Personality Disorder

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Tx of Choice = dialectical behavioral therapy

Acute inpatient psychiatry

+/- anti-psychotics/anti-depressants/benzos for sx.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder DSM V dx criteria

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Excessive emotionality, attention-seeking and 5 or more of the following:

  • being uncomfortable when not center of attention
  • interactions characterized by provacative, sexually seductive behavior
  • rapidly shifting and shallow moods
  • consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self
  • style of speech is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
  • show self-dramatization, exaggerated expression of emotion
  • is suggestible, easily influenced
  • considers relationships more intimate than they are
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Tx of Histrionic Personality Disorder

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CBT

Group therapy

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder DSM V Dx Criteria

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Grandiosity in fantasy and behavior, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and 5 or more of the following:

  • grandiose sense of self importance
  • preoccupied with fantasies of power success, love
  • believes he or she is special or unique
  • requires excessive admiration
  • sense of entitlement
  • takes advantage of others to achieve own needs
  • envious of others
  • arrogant, haughty
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Tx of Narcissistic

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Anger management

Group therapy**

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What are the cluster C personality disorders?

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Avoidant
obessive compulsive
dependent

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DSM V Criteria for Avoidant personality disorder

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pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation indicated by 4 or more of the following::
-avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact because of fears of criticism, disapproval or rejection

unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked

shows restraint with intimate relationships b/c of the fear of being shamed or ridiculed

is preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations.

is inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy

views self as socially inept, personally unappealing or inferior to others

unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities b/c they may be embarrassing

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Avoidant Personality Disorder Tx

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CBT
Group therapy
social skills training
SSRI

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Obsessive compulsive personality disorder DSM V criteria

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Preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost.

Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion

is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships

overconscientious, inflexible about morality, ethics, or values

Unable to discard worn-out or worthless object even when they have no sentimental value

reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit exactly to his or her way of doing things.

adopts a miserly spending style toward both self and others; money is viewed as something to be hoarded for future catastrophes

Rigid and stubborn

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Tx of OCPD

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seek tx d/t anxiety attacks, sexual dysfunction, fatigue, or at the request of family members

CBT

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Dependent Personality DIsorder DSM V criteria

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must have 5 or more of the following:
-has difficulty making everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others

needs other to assume responsiblity for most major areas of his or her life

has difficulty expressing disagreement with others b/c of feel of loss of support or approval

has difficulty initiating projects or doing things on his or her own.

Goes to excessive lengths to obtain nuturance and support from others, to the point of volunteering to do things that are unpleasant

feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone because of exaggerated fears or being unable to care for self.

Urgently seeks another relationship as a source of care and support when a close relationship ends.

is unrealistically preoccupied with fears of being left to take care of self.

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Treatment of Dependent Personality Disorder

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Meds

CBT

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