Primary areas of dysfunction Flashcards
What shapes personality?
Inherited tendencies, or your genes
Environment, or life situations
What are personality disorders?
Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior and relatively stable predispositions that deviate from the individual’s culture.
Patterns in (2 or more): cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning and impulse control
Inflexible and maladaptive, causing distress and/or impairment, however, *may be egosyntonic (does not rule out diagnosis)
What are predisposing factors of personality disorders?
Substance use Suicide Affective disorders Impulse-control disorders Eating disorders Anxiety disorders
What can having a PD do to treatment of primary disorder?
*PD interferes with treatment outcomes of primary psychiatric diagnosis and increases personal incapacitation, morbidity, and mortality
How is PDs studied?
Focus on:
Clinical description
Causation
Treatment and outcome
What are the classifications of PDs?
Cluster A,B,C
What is a The classification Cluster A PD?
odd or eccentric (not psychotic)
What is the classification Cluster B PD?
dramatic, emotional, erratic
What is the classificationCluster C PD?
fearful or anxious
What are the Genetic/familial association of Cluster A?
(Psychotic illness – genetic association with Schizophrenia)
Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
What are the Genetic/familial association of Cluster B?
(genetics with Mood disorders, substance abuse, somatoform disorders)
Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, Borderline
What are the Genetic/familial association of Cluster C?
( genetic association with Anxiety Disorders)
Avoidant, Obsessive-compulsive, Dependent
What is the epidemiology of PDs?
10-120% of general population
What os the etiology of PDs?
Childhood physical, emotional, sexual abuse
Genetics (Schizotypal, Antisocial & BPD)
Comorbid: high overlap. axis I complicates Tx of PDs
Gender bias in Dx
When may someone come forward with PDs?
Dx requires early childhood;may not come forward until adulthood
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