Personality Disorders Flashcards
What are Cluster A personality disorders?
Prominent problems are with perceived safety of interpersonal relationships
- paranoid personality disorder
- schizoid personality disorder
- schizotypal personality disorder
What are features of paranoid personality disorder?
CLUSTER A
Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are perverted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and in a variety of contexts
What are features of schizoid personality disorder?
CLUSTER A
A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood and in a variety of contexts
What are features of schizotypal personality disorder?
CLUSTER A
Pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships
Also cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behaviour, beginning by early adulthood and in a variety of contexts
What are cluster B personality disorders?
Prominent problems are with keeping feelings tolerable without acting
- antisocial personality disorder
- narcissistic personality disorder
- borderline personality disorder
- histrionic personality disorder
What are features of antisocial personality disorder?
CLUSTER B
a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15
- failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviour
- deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability, aggressiveness
- reckless disregard for safety of self or others
- irresponsibility, lack of remorse
What are features of borderline personality disorder?
CLUSTER B
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image
Marked impulsivity
What are features of narcissistic personality disorder?
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy
- grandiose self-importance
- sense of entitlement
What are features of histrionic personality disorder?
CLUSTER B
Pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking
- uncomfortable when not the centre of attention
- interaction with others often inappropriately sexually seductive or provocative behaviour
- rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
What are cluster C personality disorders?
Prominent problems relate to anxiety and how it is managed (in relationships)
- obsessive compulsive (anankastic) personality disorder
- avoidant personality disorder
- dependent personality disorder
What are features of dependent personality disorder?
Pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behaviours
What are features of obsessive compulsive personality disorder?
Pervasive preoccupation with cleanliness, perfectionism and mental and interpersonal control
- preoccupied with details
- perfectionism interfering with task completion
- excessively devoted to work and productivity
- overconscientious, scrupulous and inflexible about matters of morality ethics and values
What are features of avoidant personality disorder?
CLUSTER C
Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
What is the treatment for personality disorders?
Dialectic behavioural therapy (CBT subtype)
Mentalization-Based treatment
Symptomatic Prescribing
Co-occurring mental illness
