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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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What are personality disorders?

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Enduring patterns of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individuals culture

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What disorders come under Cluster A?

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  • paranoid personality disorder
  • schizoid personality disorder
  • schizotypal personality disorder
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What disorders come under Cluster B?

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  • antisocial personality disorder
  • borderline
  • histrionic
  • narcissistic
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What disorders come under Cluster C?

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  • avoidant
  • dependent
  • obsessive-compulsive
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Describe Cluster A

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Odd or eccentric: believed to reflect a dispositional vulnerability to schizophrenia and psychosis

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Describe Cluster B

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Dramatic, emotional or erratic: dispositional theme of problems with emotion regulation and deficits in empathy

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Describe Cluster C

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Anxious or fearful: dispositional vulnerability to anxiety disorders

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What is negative affectivity in the dark side five factor model

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High neuroticism

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What is detachment in the dark side five factor model

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Low extraversion

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What is antagonism in the dark side five factor model

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Low agreeableness

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What is disinhibition in the dark side five factor model

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Low conscientiousness

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What is psychoticism in the dark side five factor model

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Altered openness to experience, the reverse pole being labelled lucidity

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What are the 4 levels of personality functioning?

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  • identity
  • self direction
  • empathy
  • intimacy
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Identity

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Awareness of self and emotional regulation

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Self-direction

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Appropriate ambitions and standards of behaviour

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Empathy

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Understanding and appreciation of others

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Intimacy

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Satisfying, enduring, and caring personal reports

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What labels are more likely to be given to male or stereotypically masculine clients?

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Antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder

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What are some typically feminine diagnoses

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Borderline, histrionic

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What are the main diagnostic points for Paranoid Personality Disorder?

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  • suspicion of others
  • preoccupied with doubts of people’s loyalty
  • reluctant to confide
  • reads hidden meaning
  • bears grudges
  • perceives attacks to their character
  • recurrent suspicions of fidelity in spouse
21
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Ego dystonic

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Not something we see as part of ourselves

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What are the main diagnostic points for Schizoid Personality Disorder?

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  • doesn’t like close relationships
  • likes solitude
  • no desire for sex
  • takes pleasure in few activities
  • lacks close friends
  • indifferent to praise or criticism
  • emotional coldness, flattened affectivity
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Which Cluster B disorder most clearly represents a dispositional vulnerability to schizophrenia?

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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List three biological concomitants of antisocial PD

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Underarousal, fearlessness and disinbihition

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Gender balance for Borderline?

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Much more likely to be diagnosed in women

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What events are Borderline PD associated with?

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Childhood trauma or other events generating severe insecure attachment

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Treatment for Borderline?

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Dialectical behaviour therapy

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What four areas can personality disorders manifest in?

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  1. Cognition
  2. Affectivity
  3. Interpersonal functioning
  4. Impulse control
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Concepts general to personality disorders

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  • inflexible
  • pervasive
  • stable
  • long
  • not attributable to substance
30
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List some issues with personality disorders

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  • overlap in characteristics and diagnosis
  • categorical vs. dimensional
  • practical issues in applying diagnosis
  • stigmatising labels
  • lack of knowledge on cause
31
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Criterion gender bias

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When criteria for a disorder might be biased

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Assessment gender bias

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When the way that criteria are applied when assessing clients is biased

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What diagnoses might be more likely to be given to a masculine male client

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Antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder

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What diagnoses might be more likely to be given to a feminine female client

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Borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder

35
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Which cluster is the most rare

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Cluster A

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IOUOSIBLE

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(List Schizotypal criteria)

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CSNTLIE

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(List schizoid criteria)

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SPCHGAF

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(List paranoid criteria)

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FDIIRCL

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(List antisocial criteria)

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Briefly describe Paranoid personality disorder

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A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent

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Briefly describe Schizoid personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings

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Briefly describe Schizotypal personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships, and cognitive and perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behaviour

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Briefly describe Antisocial personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others

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Briefly describe Borderline personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self image, affects and control over impulses

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Briefly describe Histrionic personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of excessive emotion and attention seeking

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Briefly describe Narcissistic personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy of behaviour), need for admiration, and lack of empathy

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Briefly describe Avoidant personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

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Briefly describe Dependent personality disorder

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A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of, which leads to submissive and clinging behaviour and fears of separation

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Briefly describe Obsessive compulsive personality disorder

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A pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness and efficiency

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