Personality Disorders Flashcards

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Cluster A

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paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal. (eccentric)

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Cluster B

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antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic (drama)

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Cluster C

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avoidant, dependent, and OCD (odd)

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Paranoid personality disorder:

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  • persistent mistrust and suspiciousness of others
  • believe that others are out to harm, take advantage of, or betray them
  • feels this way despite having no evidence to support their claims
  • worries with unproven doubts of colleagues and friends
  • fear that info they share will be used against them
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Schizoid personality disorder:

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  • persistent pattern of aloofness from relationships and decreased emotional expression
  • desire solitary activity and doesn’t want or like close relationships including family relationships
  • no friends or pleasures in life
  • appear to lack any desire for sexual experiences and appear emotionally distant and detached
  • unconcerned when they receive praise or criticism from others
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Schizotypal personality disorder:

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  • persistent pattern of involving difficulty with relationships as evidenced by severe uneasiness with and decreased ability for intimate relationships
  • lack of close friends
  • strange, eccentric behaviour
  • misinterpret
  • tend to be superstitious and have odd beliefs or magical thinking
  • bizarre thinking and speech
  • social anxiety and paranoid worries
  • when they experience extreme stress they decompensated and become psychotic resulting in hospitalization
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Antisocial personality disorder:

B

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  • pattern of not conforming to social norms
  • have a disregard for and violate the rights of others
  • dishonest as evidence by frequent lying and deceiving other for personal gain/pleasure
  • impulsive, irritable, aggressive, reckless, irresponsible and lack for remorse
  • difficulty with authority figures and often have ODD as children
  • end up in prison usually
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Borderline personality disorder:

B

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  • pattern of volatile interactions with other
  • extreme impulsive and make attempts to prevent genuine or imagined abandonment
  • have intense, unstable relationships that swing b/c of extremism of admiration and deprecation
  • engage in repeated self-mutilating behaviours
  • express feelings of emptiness, anger, and stress
  • commonly splitting
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Histrionic personality disorder:

B

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  • attention seeking behaviour
  • uneasy in situations unless they are the centre of attention
  • often provocative and use their physical appearance to draw others in
  • very dramatic and theatrical
  • easily swayed by others
  • tend to think relationships are closer than they truly are
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Narcissitic:

B

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  • pattern of pretentiousness and need for approval and high regard
  • sense of entitlement
  • take advantage of people for their own personal gain
  • exaggerated self worth
  • may distort facts and accusations
  • rage impairs their judgement and thinking
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Avoidant personality disorder:

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  • shyness, feelings of incompetence, and extreme sensitivity to criticism
  • will avoid situations that involve interaction with others d/t fear of negative reaction
  • don’t get involved with others unless they know they will be accepted
  • don’t talk about themselves
  • think of themselves as inferior or unattractive
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Dependent personality disorder:

C

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  • concern or worry over the orderliness, perfectionism, control and details of an activity
  • focused only on work and productivity
  • don’t like to throw away meaningless, valueless object, tend to save money for misfortune
  • stubborn and rigid
    may be dx with concurrent anxiety disorder
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