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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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What are personality disorders?

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abnormal personalities that are maladaptive and cause problems to its possessor and others

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When do personality disorders appear?

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before the age of 18

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What are cluster A personality disorders?

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“odd or eccentric”
paranoid
schizoid
schizotypal

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What are cluster B personality disorders?

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"dramatic or emotional"
dissocial
emotionally unstable
histronic 
narcisstic
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What are cluster C personality disorders?

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“anxious or avoidant”
ankanistic - OCD
anxious
dependant

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What is the criteria for paranoid personality disorder?

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4 of:
eccessive sensitivity to set backs
suspiciousness and tendancy to misconstrue nice actions as hostile
tenatious sense of personal rights outkeeping with the actual situation
recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding sexual fidelity of partner
persistent self referential attitude associated with excessive self importance
preoccupation with conspiracies about the world

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Who is more prone to paranoid personality disorders - males or females?

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males

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How do you treat paranoid personality disorders?

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antiphsycotics

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What is the criteria for schizoid personality disorders?

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4 of:
few activities provide pleasure
emotional coldness, detachment or flattened affect
indifferent to either praise or criticism
limited capacity to express warm feelings
little interest in sexual experiences
always choose solitary activties
excessive preoccupation with fantasy/introspection
neither desires nor has any close friends
marked insensitivity to social norms

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Who is more prone to schizoid personality disorders - males or females?

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male

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What is the criteria for schizotypal personality disorder?

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5 or more of:
ideas of reference - excluding delusions
unusual perceptual experiences
odd beliefs or magical thinking
unusual thinking and speech
innapropriate or constricted affect
lack of close friends
excessive social anxiety
odd and eccentric behaviour and appearance
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What is the criteria for a dissocial personality disorder?

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3 of:
callous unconcern for feelings of others
irresponsible and disregard for social norms/rules/obligations
incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, no difficulty establishing them
very low tolerance to frustration and low threshold for agression/violence
incapacity to experience guilt
marked proneness to blame others

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Who is more prone to dissocial personality disorders - males or females?

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males

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What is the criteria for emotionally unstable - impulsive personality disorder?

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3 of:
tendancy to act suddenly without consideration of consequences
quarrelsome behaviour and conflict with others
liability to outbursts of anger or violence
difficulty in maintaining any course of action that offers no immediate reward
unstable mood

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What are the two types of emotionally unstable personality disorders?

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impulsive

borderline

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16
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How do you treat impulsive emotionally unstable personality disorders?

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lamotrigine - mood stabaliser

17
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Who is more prone to impulsive emotionally unstable personality disorders - males or females?

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females

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What is the criteria for a borderline emotionally unstable personality disorder?

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2 of:
disturbances in and uncertainty about self image, aims and internal preferences
intense and unstable relationships
excessive effort to avoid abandonment
recurrent threats or acts of self harm
chronic feelings of emptiness
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Who is more prone to borderline emotionally unstable personality disorders - males or females?

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females

20
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How do you treat emotionally unstable borderline disorders?

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dialectal behavioural therapy

21
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What is dialectal behavioural therapy?

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learning to accept and regulate emotions over the last 6months to a year

22
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What is the criteria for histronic personality disorder?

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4 of:
self dramatisation
shallow, liable affectivtiy
continually seeks excitement and likes activties where they are the centre of attention
innapropriately seductive in appearance or behaviour
overly concerned with physical attractiveness

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Who is more prone to histronic personality disorders - males or females?

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males

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What is the criteria for narcisstic personality disorders?

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5 of:
grandoise logic of self importance
fixation with fantasies of infinite success, control, brilliance, beauty or idyllic love 
thought that they are exceptional
desire for unwarrented admiration
sense of entitlement
interpersonally opressive behaviour
no form of empathy
resentment to others
display of egotistical and concieted behaviours or attitures
25
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Who is more prone to narcisstic personality disorders?

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males

26
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How do you treat cluster c?

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social skill training

antidepressants

27
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What is the criteria for anakistic personality disorders?

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4 of:
excessive doubt or caution
preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organisation
perfectionism that interferes with task completion
undue preoccupation with productivity
pendantic, excessive adherance to social conventions
regidity and stubbornness
unreasonable insistance that others shoud think the way that they think

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Who is more prone to ankanistic personality disorders?

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males

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What is the criteria for anxious personality disorders?

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4 of:
persistant feelings of tension/apprehension
belief that onself if inept/inferior to others
excessive peroccupation about being rejected in social situations
unwillingness to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
restrictions in lifestyle because of need of security
avoidance of social or occupational activities that involve interpersonal contact

30
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Who is more prone to anxious personality disorders?

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male/female = equal

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What is the criteria for dependant personality disorders?

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4 of:
allowing/encouraging other to make their important decisions
subordination of ones own needs to those of others
unwillingness to make even reasonable demands on people
feeling uncomfortable or helpless when alone
preoccupation of fears of being left to look after oneself
limited capacity to make everyday decisions without excessive reassurance

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