WEEK 21 LEARNING OBJECTIVES/TERMS Flashcards
Explain personality disorders (PD)
Personality traits that result in distress , social impairment, or occupational impairment.
Give examples of Personality Disorders
Antisocial, avoidant, borderline, dependent, histrionic, narcissistic, obsessive, paranoid, schizoid.
What is the DSM-5
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Used to identify and determine mental health conditions.
Explain obsessive compulsive personality disorder:
Obsessive compulsive personality is a disorder of maladaptive conscientiousness including traits such as workaholism, perfectionism and so on.
Explain Schizoid
Schizoid personality disorder is confined largely to traits of introversion.
Explain Border personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder, largely a disorder of neuroticism, including traits like emotional unstable, vulnerable, overwhelmed, rageful, depressive, and self-destructive.
Histrionic personality disorder (Cocky)
A disorder of extraversion including traits such as attention seeking, exaggerated, emotionality, and strong attachment.
What is the DSM-5 domains specifically?
1) Openness/closedness
2) Conscientiousness
3) Extraversion-introversion
4) Agreeableness-antagonism
5) Neuroticism - emotional stability.
Why do people opt not to seek treatment for their personality disorder?
Often because they are ego-syntonic meaning most people with disorders are comfortable with themselves hence they don’t seek treatment.
What is the one exception to not seeking help for personality disorders. (Too good).
One exception is for borderline personality disorder because of neuroticism being the domain personality structure. Narccisstic individuals will rarely seek help because it hurts the ego.
What are symptoms of borderline personality disorder?
Distress, anxiety, depression, self-consciousness. People who have BPD experience life as painful/suffering and therefore seek help.
What are 6-personality disorder types that were proposed for retention?
1) Borderline
2) Antisocial
3) Schizotypal
4) Narcissistic
5) obsessive
6) Avoidant
What is the etiology for antisocial personality disorder?
Considered to be the result of genetic disposition for low anxiousness, aggressiveness, impulsivity like inconsistent parenting.
What is the etiology for borderline personality disorder? (EVIL)
considered to be the result of genetic disposition to interacting with malevolent, abusive, or invalidating family environment.
What is the treatment for borderline personality disorder? (Leige)
Dialectical behavioral therapy–cognitive behavior therapy that draws on principles from Zen Buddhism, diabetically philosophy, and behavioral science
How does Harvey Clerkly define psychopathy? What did he determine?
Described psychopathy as deep rooted emotional pathology.
- He provided 16 diagnostic criteria’s from his clinical case summaries, which indicated psychological stability.
- He did not characterize psychopathic patients as inherently cruel, violent, or dangerous.
The clerkly oriented concept of psychopathy was replaced by…
anti-social personality disorder, defined by indications of deviancy in childhood, which continued to adulthood.
Explain rating based measures? (PCL-R)
PCL-R (Psychopathy checklist) is used as a referent to identify psychopathic individuals among youth convicted crimes or referred for treatment of conduct problems.
Through the PCL-R what traits are they seeking to distinguish patients from anti social personality disorder.
“Callows-unemotional” which encompasses low empathy, deficient remorse/guilt, shallow, and lack of concern for priorities like school.
Triarchic model: Explain the 3 symptomatic components?
1) Badness: Involves social efficacy, emotional resilience, and venturesome.
2) Meanness: Entails lack of empathy, emotional sensitivity, and exploitive behavior towards others.
3) Disinhibition: Entails deficient behavior restraint and lack of control over urges/emotional reactions.
Which treatments are most effective for Badness, meanness, and disinhibition.
Badness: (PCLR & ASPD TESTS)
Meanness: (Cleckley tests).
Disinhibition: (must be present with meanness or badness to be diagnosed).
Explain alternative theories regarding origins of psychopathy?
1) For one, impairments in recognizing, understanding, and appropriately responding to emotions, both in oneself and others.
2) And two, there are basic impairments in cognitive-attentional processing.
What makes the triarchic model effective?
The triarchic model addresses the nature, definitions, and origins of psychopathy through deconstructing the condition into three traits (Badness, meanness, and disinhibition) which is less restrictive than clerkly or DSMs definitions.
Provide examples of practiced psychotherapy
1) Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)
2) Person centered therapy (CPT)
3) Mindfulness based therapy (MBT)
4) Pharmacology treatments
