Personality disorders Flashcards
What are the cluster A personality disorders?
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
Suspects that others are exploiting, harming or deceiving them
Unjustifiable doubts about the loyalty of friends
Reluctant to confide in others in fear that information will be used against them
Reads hidden demeaning or threatening means into benign remarks
Persistently bears grudges
Percieves attacks on character or reputation and is quick to rect angrily
Recurrent suspicions regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partners
Paranoid
Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships
Almost always chooses solitary activities
Has little if any interest in sex
takes pleasure in few, if any activities
Lacks close friends and confidants
Appears indifferent to praise or criticism of others
Shows emotional coldness, detachment or flattened affecivity
schizoid personality disorder
Ideas of reference
Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behaviour and is consistent with subcultural norms
Unusual perceptual experiences
Odd thinking and speech
Suspiciousness and paranoid ideation
Inappropriate or constricted affect
Eccentric, peculiar or odd appearance and behaviour
Lack of close friends or confidants
Excessive social anxiety and is associated with paranoid fears
schizotypal personality disorder
What ar the cluster B personality disorders??
Antisocial personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Failure to conform to social norms with respect to the law
Decietfulness
Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead
Irritability, aggressiveness
Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
Consistent irresponsibility
Lack of remorse
antisocial personality disorder
Grandiose sense of self importance Fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, ideal love Belief of being "special" and only being understood by other "special" people Requires excessive admiration Sense of entitlement Interpersonally exploitive Lacks empathy Envious of others Arrogant, haughty behaviours
Narcissistic
Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
Pattern of unstable or intense interpersonal relationships, characterised by alternating idealisation and devaluation
Unstable self image and sense of self
Impulsivity in self damaging areeas
Recurrent suicidal or self mutilating behaviour
Marked reactivity of mood
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Inappropriate intense anger, or difficulty controlling anger
Transient stress related paranoiad ideation or dissociation
Borderline
Uncomfortable in situations where they are nit the centre of attention
Inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behaviour
Rapidly shifting and shallow expression of mood
Uses physical appearance to draw attention to self
Impressionistic speech lacking in detail
Self dramatisation, theatricality and exaggerated expression of emotion
Suggestible
Considers relationships more intimate than they are
histrionic personality disorder
What are the types of cluster C personality disorder?
Dependent personality disorder
Obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Difficulty making everyday decisions without excessive amount of advice
Needs others to assume responsibility for major decisions
Difficulty expressing disapproval of others necause of fear of loss of support or approval
Difficulty initiating things or doing them independently
Goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support
Feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone
Urgently seeks relationships as source of care and support
Fears being left to take care of themselves
dependent personality disorder
Preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, schedules, organisation…
Perfectionist
Excessively devoted to work to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships
Overconscientious, scrupulous and inflexible about morality, ethics or values
Inable to discard worn out or worthless objects
Reluctant to delegate tasks or work with others
Miserly spending style
Rigid and stubborn
obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact due to fears of criticism, disapproval or rejection
Unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
Restrained in intimate relationship because of fear of being shamed or ridiculed
Preoccupied with being criticised or rejected in social situations
Inhibited in new relationship because of feelings of inadequacy
Views self as socially inept, unappealing or inferior
Reluctant to take personal risks or engage in new activities because they may prove embarrassing
avoidant personality disorder
