Personality Disorders Flashcards
What are the different clusters and disorders?
A (Odd, eccentric): Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
B (dramatic, emotional, erratic): Narcissistic, antisocial, histrionic, borderline
C (Anxious, fearful): Dependent, avoidant, obsessive-compulsive
What are the two fundamental disturbances of thinking assoc with all personality disorders?
Self: identity, concept, directedness
Interpersonal: empathy, intimacy, cooperativeness
What are 4 areas of priority for PD’s publicly?
- Improving treatments
- Early intervention
- Focus on consumers, families, carers
- Accurate and rep data collection/reporting
How was BPD discovered?
Stern 1938- found patients that didn’t fit psychotic illnesses or general neurotic patients
What is the criteria of BPD?
Need to endorse 5 of 9, a lot of potential combinations
incl. avoid abandonment, intense interpersonal relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity, suicidal behaviours, affect instability, chronic emptiness, intense anger & control, paranoid ideation or dissociative sx
What are some challenges with BPD?
Misdiagnosis (BP, PTSD, psychosis) Pharmacotherapy not recommended as primary but often over-medicated Relationship deficits Health service deficits Stigma/prejudice
What are early warning signs of BPD?
A (Affect): high emotional sensitivity, increased response to stimuli, slow return to baseline
I (Identity): changing sense of self, aggression/impulsivity, withdrawal, avoidance
R (Relationship): social isolation, problematic peer relationships, ineffective validation from carers
What is the Project Air biopsychosocial model?
Brings together epigenetic factors (genes x env) creating bio and psychosocial factors that influence AIR -> sx
What is epigenetics?
Processes influencing how genetic and env factors interact to produce dynamic changer over the lifetime
