Personality Disorders Flashcards
What are cluster A personality disorders?
Paranoid Personality disorder
Schizoid Personality disorder
Schizotypal Personality disorder
What is the diagnostic criteria for paranoid personality disorder?
Persuasive distrust of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning in early adulthood
It must contain 4 of the PPD criteria
It must happen outwith the duration of any other disorders such as schizophrenia, depression.
What are the PPD criteria used to diagnose paranoid personality disorder?
- Suspects, without sufficient basis that others are exploiting, harming, deceiving him or her.
- Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates
- Is reluctant to confide in others due to unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her.
- Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events
- Persistently bears grudges
- Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or counteract
- has recurrent suspicions without justification regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner
What is schizoid personality disorder
A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts
indicated by four or more of the SPD criteria.
Does not occur exclusively during the course of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or depressive disorder with psychotic features, another psychotic disorder or autism
What are the SPD criteria for diagnosing Schizoid personality disorder
- Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships including family
- Almost always chooses solitary activities
- Has little, if any desires for sex
- Takes pleasure in few activities
- Lacks close friends or confidants asides from close relatives
- Appears indifferent to the praise or criticisms of others
Shows emotional coldness, detachment or flattened activity
What is schizotypical personality disorder
Patter of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with close relationships. This is accompanied by eccentricities of behaviours
5 of the STPD criteria
Does not occur exclusively during another disorder such as schizophrenia
What are the STPD criteria for diagnosing schizotypical personality disorder
- ideas of reference
- odd beliefs or magical thinking (e.g. sixth sense)
- unusual perceptual experiences
4.Odd thinking and speech - Suspiciousness/paranoia
- Inappropriate or constricted affect
- Behaviour or appearance that is odd, eccentric or peculiar
- Lack of close friends or confidants
Excessive social anxiety, related to paranoid fears
What are cluster B personality disorders?
Antisocial personality disorder
Narcisstic personality disorder
Borderline Personality
Histronic Personality Disorder
What is Antisocial personality disorder?
A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15
indicated by three of the APD diagnostic criteria
Exhibited by someone over 18 years
Doesn’t occur explicitly during the course of a schizophrenic or bipolar disorder
What are the APD criteria used to diagnose Antisocial personality disorder?
- Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
- Deceitfulness
- impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
- irritability or aggressiveness
- Reckless disregard fro safety
- Consistent irresponsibility
- Lack of remorse
What is borderline personality disorder?
A patter of instability of inter-personal relationships, self image, affects and marked impulsivity.
Marked by 5 of the BPD criteria
What are the 5 BPD criteria used for diagnosing borderline personality disorder
- Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
- A pattern of unstasble and intense interpersonal relationships characterised by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
- Identify disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self image
- Impulsivity in areas that are self damaging
- Recurrent suicidal/ self harming behaviours
- Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood
- Chronic feelings of emptiness
- Inappropriate anger
- Transient, stress related paranoid ideation
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy beginning in early adulthood.
Exhibits 5 of the NPD criteria
What are the NPD criteria used for diagnosing narcissistic personality disorders?
- Has grandiose sense of self importance
- preoccupied by fantasies of unlimited success
- believes they are special and can only be judged by high status people/institutions
- requires excessive admiration
- Has a sense of entitlement
- Is inter personally exploitative
- Lacks empathy
- Is often envious of others
- Shows arrogant behaviours or attitudes
What is histrionic personality disorder?
A pervasive pattern of excessive attention seeking behaviour.
Indicated by five of the HPD criteria
