Personality Disorders Flashcards
What is the definition of a personality disorder?
An enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture. This pattern is manifested in two (or more) of the following areas: Cognition Affectivity Interpersonal functioning Impulse control
What is a Cluster A Personality Disorder? List 3.
The prominent problems are with the perceived safety of interpersonal relationships.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behaviour
What are Cluster B Personality Disorders? List 4.
The prominent problems are with keeping feelings tolerable without acting. Antisocial Personality Disorder Narcissistic Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder Histrionic Personality Disorder
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring age 15 years
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Instability of self-image, affects and interpersonal relationships, and marked impulsivity
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Grandiosity (feeling of superiority), need for admiration, and lack of empathy
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Excessive emotionality and attention seeking
What are Cluster C Personality Disorders? List 3.
Prominent problems relate to anxiety and management (in relationships).
OCD (anankastic) Personality Disorder
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Dependent Personality Disorder
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness and efficiency.
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
What is Dependent Personality Disorder?
Need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behaviour and fears of separation.
