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T3 - Personality Disorders Intro and Cluster A PD (Josh) Flashcards

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The core problem with Personality disorders is —

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the inability to form close relationships

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The — are diagnosed more frequently in women.

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Borderline, Histrionic, and Dependent Personality Disorders

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Defense mechanisms used by individuals w/ PD.

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Repression

Suppression

Regression

Undoing

Splitting

Externalization

Denial

Projection

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Defense Mechanism for PD:

unconscious mechanism by which anxious, threatening thoughts/feelings are kept from becoming conscious

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Repression

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Medications for Paranoid Personality?

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  • Antipschotics (Risperidal or Zyprexa)
  • SSRI
  • Antianxiety meds
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memory, organization of sensory information

Which lobe?

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Temporal lobe

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Antipsychotics for PD:

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risperidone
olanzapine
haloperidol

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Schizotypal PD effects –

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3% of population (more in men)

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PD Therapies:

This type of cognitive behavior therapy focuses on coping skills and gradual behavior changes in an accepting and supportive environment; learning how to take better control of behaviors and emotions.

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Dialectical behavior therapy.

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Which are the most challenging psychiatric disorders to treat?

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Personality Disorders

  • b/c personality is, by definition, an integral part of what defines the individual
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Defense Mechanism for PD:

an action or words designed to cancel some disapproved thoughts, impulses, or acts in which the person relieves guilt by making reparation

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Undoing

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Defense Mechanism for PD:

viewing people, things, events as all good or all bad; the inability to integrate the positive and negative in people, life situations

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Splitting

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This theory describes the toddler’s individualization from the primary caregiver

Important landmark in early development is ability to form a lasting bond

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Mahler’s Object Relations Theory

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Effective therapies for PD

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Individual Psychotherapy (most effective)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

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Schizoid affects more men or women?

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men

  • affects 0.7% of population
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PD Therapies:

This form of psychological treatment involves actively retraining the way you think about problems, which in turn improves your emotions and behaviors.

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Cognitive behavior therapy

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Which Personality Disorder?

  • Detachment, social withdrawal
  • Indifference to other’s feelings
  • Restricted emotional range
  • Prefers solitary interests and occupations
  • No close friends, loner
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Schizoid Personality Disorder

  • Cluster A: Odd/Eccentric
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– – is a group of brain structures responsible for emotion, behavior, long-term memory.

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Limbic System

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— includes six stages of moral development that progress in sequence and are not bound by age.

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Kohlberg’s Moral Development Theory

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The Antisocial Personality Disorder is diagnosed more frequently in –.

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men

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What are Standard Assessments for Personality Disorders?

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  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Mental Status Exam

  • note: MMPI is self-reporting
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Best Meds for Cluster A PD:

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antideppressants

low-dose antipsychotics

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SSRIs for PD:

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fluoxetine
sertraline
citalopram
paroxetine
escitalopram
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Group or Individual Therapy is best for Paranoid Personality?

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Individual Therapy

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Rather than aiming for a cure, treatments typically focuses on –

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enhancing client’s coping skills

solving short-term probs

building relationship skills

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Schizoid Personality Disorder looks like –

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loners / hermits

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Which meds for Schizotypal PD?

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low does antipsychtics (clozapine)

SSRI

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This therapy recognizes the fragility of the self esteem in clients with a personality disorder and works to build a kind, caring therapeutic relationship.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

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Defense Mechanism for PD:

pretending the truth is not reality

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Defense Mechanism for PD:

resorting to earlier more comfortable level of functioning that is less demanding and responsible

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Regression

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Cluster A PD: Odd/Eccentric

Neuroimaging shows an association b/t Cluster A symptoms and –

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decreased prefrontal grey matter

increased corpus callosum white matter

32
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Cluster A Personality Disorders:

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Paranoid Personality

Schizoid Personality

Schizotypal Personality

33
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Nursing care for Schizoid PD:

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  • respect need for privacy, need for physical and emotional distance (need close human contact but easily overwhelmed)
  • give time to express feelings, teach social skills, avoid arguing and defensiveness
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– – have been shown to be the most effective intervention for modifying some forms of difficult behavior displayed by people with personality disorders

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Psychotherapeutic interventions

35
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How many adults have a personality disorder?

36
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– is effective for Borderline PD.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

37
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– affects 0.5-2.5% of the population and is more common in males.

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Paranoid Personality

38
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Who got the rod shot through their head in 1800s?

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Phineas Gage

  • his injury laid groundwork for understanding Personality Disorder
39
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The deviations of perception, thinking, and behavior w/ PD affect which areas?

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Cognition

Affectivity

Interpersonal Functioning

Impulse Control

  • must affect two or more of these
40
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Class B Personality Disorders:

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Antisocial

Borderline

Histrionic

Narcissistic

41
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Identifies eight stages of development w/ specific tasks for each stage that when met, causes emotional growth

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory

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Schizotypal PD looks like –

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eccentric behavior

43
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50% of Schizotypal PD have –

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major depression and/or another PD such as avoidant or paranoid

44
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Which Personality Disorder?

  • Odd thought and behavioral patterns
  • Persistent pattern of social and interpersonal deficits
  • Severe social anxiety
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Schizotypal Personality

  • Cluster A: Odd/Eccentric
45
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Personality disorders tend to form in — and continue through the lifetime.

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adolescence or early adulthood

46
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— consists of psychological tasks or lessons presented in age bound stages that are mastered for the development and maturing of the personality.

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Peplau’s interpersonal theory

47
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What does medication management focus on w/ PD?

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enhancing the client’s coping skills, solving short term problems, and developing relationship skills through long-term psychotherapy

specific symptom medications (depression, anxiety, etc.), education.

48
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– theory is a complex combination of three unique components of the personality (Id, Ego, Superego), topography of the mind (Conscious, Preconscious, Unconscious), and stages of psychosexual development.

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Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

49
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Is Schizotypal PD genetic?

50
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Defense Mechanism for PD:

attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one’s self to another person

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Projection

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Which Personality Disorder?

  • Mistrustful, suspicious, watchful
  • Irritable, short-fuse, bad temper
  • Hostile attitude
  • Accusatory communication style
  • Externalizes blame for problems
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Paranoid Personality

Cluster A: Odd/Eccentric

52
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Defense Mechanism for PD:

consciously refusing to think about it

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Suppression

53
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– is the father of child psychology.

54
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– believed that the personalty and behavior are outcomes of interpersonal relationships.

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Sullivan’s Interpersonal Theory

55
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Antianxiety Meds for PD:

56
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What are the Gerontological Implications of Personality Disorder?

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The personality generally remains stable over time; therefore a personality change may indicate a change in physical health

57
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How many personality disorders have been identified by DSM-5?

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10

grouped into 3 clusters

58
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Anticonvulsants for PD:

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carbamazepine
valproic acid
lithium

59
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How many clusters are there of the 10 Personality disorders?

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3 Clusters:

Cluster A: Odd, Eccentric

Cluster B: Dramatic, Emotional, Erratic

Cluster C: Anxious, Fearful, Insecure, Feelings of Inadequacy

60
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Best Meds for Cluster B PD:

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anti-seizure mood stabilizing agents

MAOIs

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Diagnostic criteria generally state that the patient exhibits –

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an enduring pattern of perception, thinking, and behaviors that deviates significantly from the norms and expectations of his/her culture

62
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Can Personality Disorders be cured?

63
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Defense Mechanism for PD:

blaming others; refusing to take responsibility or to own or acknowledge behavior

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Externalization

64
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Class C Personality Disorders:

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Avoidant

Dependent

Obsessive-Compulsive

65
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Are medications helpful with Schizoid Personality Disorder?

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Not really, unless client is experiencing major depression or severe anxiety or psychosis

66
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The traits of the Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorders tend to become – with age.

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less evident

67
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What four characteristics do ALL Personality Disorders Share?

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1) INFLEXIBILITY; maladaptive responses to stress
2) DISABILITY in social and professional relationships
3) Tendency to provoke interpersonal CONFLICT
4) Capacity to cause IRRITATION or DISTRESS in others

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Nursing care for Schizotypal PD?

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  • Patient may relate well to some nurses but not others
  • Recognize need for physical and emotional distance
  • Offer persistent consistent care
  • Active listening
  • Give time to make decisions
69
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Best Meds for Cluster C PD:

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antianxiety meds

andtidepressants

70
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Social judgment, insight, motivation, goal setting and planning, executive function

Which lobe?

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Frontal lobe

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