Personality Disorders Flashcards
1
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Antisocial
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- Unlawful behaviours
- More common in men
- Deceptive, liars, aliases, conning others
- Impulsiveness or failure to plan
- Irritability + aggressiveness / physical fights
- Reckless + unsafe
- Don’t sustain consistent work behaviour or honor financial obligations
- Lack of remorse - indifferent to rationalising having hurt, mistreated or stolen from another
2
Q
Avoidant
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- Avoid interpersonal contact - fear of criticism, or rejection
- Unwillingness to be involved unless certain of being liked
- Preoccupied w/ ideas that they are being criticised or rejected in social situs
- Restraint in intimate relationships due to fear of being ridiculed
- Reluctance to take personal risks due to fears of embarrassment
- Views self as inept + inferior to others
- Social isolation accompanied by a craving for social contact
3
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Borderline
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- Efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
- Unstable interpersonal relationships alternate between idealisation + deevaluation
- Unstable self image
- Impulsivity in potentially self damaging area (spending, sex, substances)
- Recurrent suicidal behaviour
- Affective instability
- Chronic feelings of emptiness
- Difficulty controlling temper
- Quasi psychotic thoughts
4
Q
Dependent
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- Difficulty making everyday decisions w/out excessive reassurance from others
- Need for others to assume responsibility for major areas of their life
- Difficulty in expressing disagreement w/ others due to fears of losing support
- Lack of initiative
- Unrealistic fears of being left to care for themselves
- Urgent search for another relationship as source of care
- Extensive efforts to obtain support from others
- Unrealistic feelings they cannot care for themselves
5
Q
Histrionic
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- Inappropriate sexual seductiveness
- Need to be centre of attention
- Rapidly shifting + shallow expression of emotions
- Suggestibility
- Physical appearance used for attention seeking purposes
- Impressionistic speech lacking detail
- Self dramatisation
- Relationships considered to be more intimate than they are
6
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Narcissistic
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- Grandiose sense of self importance
- Preoccupation w/ fantasies of unlimited success, power or beauty
- Sense of entitlement
- Taking advantage of others to achieve own needs
- Lack of empathy
- XS need for admiration
- Chronic envy
- Arrogant and haughty attitude
7
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Obsessive-compulsive
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- Is occupied with details, rules, lists, order, agenda, to the point that the key part of the activity is gone
- Demonstrates perfectionism hampers with completing task
- Extremely dedicated to work and efficiency
- Meticulous + rigid about etiquettes of morality, ethics and values
- Not capable of disposing worn out or insignificant things even if unsentimental
- Unwilling to pass on tasks to others except if they surrender to exactly the way of doing things
- Takes on a stingy spending style towards self and others + shows stiffness and stubbornness
8
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Paranoid
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- Hypersensitivity + unforgiving attitude when insulted
- Unwarranted tendency to question loyalty of friends
- Reluctance to confide in others
- Preoccupation w/ conspirational beliefs + hidden meaning
- Unwarranted tendency to perceive attacks on their character
9
Q
Schizoid
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- Indifference to praise + criticism
- Pref for solitary activities
- Lack of interest in sexual interaction
- Lack of desire for companionship
- Emotional coldness
- Few interests
- Few friends or confidants other than family
10
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Schizotypal
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- Ideas of reference (differ from delusions in that some insight retained)
- Odd beliefs + magical thinking
- Unusual perceptual disturbances
- Paranoid ideation + suspiciousness
- Odd, eccentric behaviour
- Lack of close friends other than family members
- Inappropriate affect
- Odd speech without being incoherent
11
Q
Which type of therapy for personality disorders?
A
Dialectial behaviour therapy
