Personality Disorders Flashcards
What are cluster A personality disorders? List them
Eccentric disorders
- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
What are cluster B personality disorders? List them
Dramatic Disorders
- Antisocial
- Borderline
- Histrionic
- Narcissistic
What are cluster C personality disorders? List them
Anxious disorders
- Avoidant
- Dependent
- Obsessive-compulsive
Define personality disorder
- Enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of an individuals culture
- Is pervasive and inflexible
- Onset in adolescence or early adulthood
- Leads to distress or impairment in two or more life domains
What traits are associated with cluster A disorders?
Eccentric, having abnormal:
- cognition (suspicious)
- Self expression (odd speech)
- Relation to others (reclusive)
What traits are associated with cluster B disorders?
Dramatic
- violating social norms or rights of others (criminal)
- impulsive
- excessive emotion
- grandiosity
- tantrums
- acting-out (anger, self harm)
What traits are associated with cluster C disorders?
Anxious
- abnormal fears involving social relationships, separation, and need for control
What are the 5 personality traits in the Major trait theory?
- Conscientiousness
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
- Openness to experience
- Extraversion
- CANOE*
What is neuroticism?
Tendency to:
- worry
- feel nervous
- be self conscious
- temperamental
- high strung
True or False:
- 9 to 16% of the general population has 1+ personality disorder?
- True
- Increases to 30-50% in psych out patients
Which personality disorder is most common in men?
- Antisocial personality disorder
Which 3 personality disorders are most common in women?
- Borderline
- Histrionic
- Dependent
Schizoid, Schizotypal and Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder are seen most commonly in which gender?
- Relatively equal distribution
Which personality disorder cannot be diagnosed until at least the age of 18 years?
- Antisocial
- For a personality disorder to be diagnosed before the age of 18 what additional criteria must be met?
- Maladaptive features must have been present for at least 1 year
True or False: Nearly all personal with personality disorder have a comorbid mental illness?
- True
- Major depression is most common
Which personality disorder has a genetic link to schizophrenia?
- Schizotypal
Why don’t people with PD seek help from doctors typically?
- Unaware of issue
- View others as problem sources
- Typically picked up when seeking help due to consequences of having PD (depression, relationship trouble, work trouble)
In which personality disorder is there a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others?
Paranoid
In the DSM 5 “A” criteria for paranoid personality disorder how many of the 7 is sufficient for diagnosis? List as many as you can
4 of 7 of:
1) Suspects others are exploiting, harming, of deceiving them w/o evidence
2) Preoccupied w unjust doubts about loyalty, trustworthiness of peers
3) Reluctant to confide in others due to fear info will be used maliciously against them
4) interprets benign remarks as harmful or demeaning
5) Persistently bears grudges
6) Perceives attacks on character that are not apparent to others and quick to retaliate
7) Recurrent suspicions regarding fidelity of partner w/o justification
A pervastive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings describes which personality disorder?
- Schizoid
In the DSM 5 “A” criteria for schizoid personality disorder how many of the 7 is sufficient for diagnosis? List as many as you can
4 of 7 of:
1) doesn’t desire or enjoy close relationships
2) almost always chooses solitary activities
3) Little or no interest in sexual experiences with others
4) enjoys few or no activities
5) lacks close relationships other than 1st degree relatives
6) Is indifferent to praise or criticism from others
7) Shows emotional coldness, detachment or flattened affectivity
Which PD is the following associated with? Little or no interest in sexual experiences with others
- Schizoid
Which PD is the following associated with? doesn’t desire or enjoy close relationships
- Schizoid
Which PD is the following associated with? Shows emotional coldness, detachment or flattened affectivity
- Schizoid
Which PD is the following associated with? Is indifferent to praise or criticism from others
- Schizoid
Which PD is the following associated with? lacks close relationships other than 1st degree relatives
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
Which PD is the following associated with? Perceives attacks on character that are not apparent to others and quick to retaliate
- Paranoid
Which PD is the following associated with? almost always chooses solitary activities
- Schizoid
Which PD is the following associated with? Recurrent suspicions regarding fidelity of partner w/o justification
- Paranoid
Which PD is the following associated with?
Persistently bears grudges
- Paranoid
Which PD is the following associated with? Preoccupied w unjust doubts about loyalty, trustworthiness of peers
- Paranoid
A patient has little to no social contacts but expresses a strong desire for social contact. Do you suspect schizoid or avoidant personality disorder?
- Avoidant
- Schizoid have no interest in socializing
social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort and reduced capacity for close relationships and well as cognitive and perceptual distortions and eccentric behaviour is associated with which personality disorder?
- Schizotypal
How many of the 9 traits must be present for a diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder?
- 5 of 9
Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference) are associated with what?
- Schizotypal
Which PD is the following associated with? Odd beliefs, magical thinking that is inconsistent with cultural norms
- Schizotypal
Which PD is the following associated with? Unusual perceptual experiences including bodily illusions
- Schizotypal
Which PD is the following associated with? Odd thinking or speech (vague, circumstantial, metaphorical)
- Schizotypal
Which PD is the following associated with? Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
- Schizotypal
- Paranoid as well
Which PD is the following associated with? Inappropriate or constricted affect
- Schizotypal
Which PD is the following associated with? Behaviour or appearance that is off, eccentric or peculiar
- Schizotypal
Which PD is the following associated with? Lack of close friends other than first degree relatives
- Schizotypal
- Schizoid
Which PD is the following associated with? Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than fear of negative judgement
- Schizotypal
Patients with this personality disorder often have a childhood history of fighting with peers and conflict with adults and meet criteria for conduct disorder
- Antisocial
Part of the DSM 5 criteria for antisocial personality disorder states that evidence of conduct disorder must have started before what age?
- 15 years old
A pervastive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occuring since age 15 describes which personality disorder?
- Antisocial