Week 9 Lecture 9 - Personality Disorders Summary (DN)

Question 0

Give some examples of the ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ psychotic-like symptoms in Personality Disorders?

Answer 0

• Positive
  
  • (e.g. Ideas of reference, magical thinking, perceptual disturbances)
• Negative
  
  • (e.g. Social isolation, poor rapport, constricted affect)

Question 1

How does DSM-5 characterise the Personality Disorders?

Answer 1

• into three Clusters
• A, B, C

Question 2

What defines the Cluster A Personality Disorders?

Answer 2

odd or eccentric behaviours

Question 3

Which 3 Personality Disorders come under

Cluster A: odd or eccentric behaviours

Answer 3

1. Paranoid Personality Disorder
2. Schizoid Personality Disorder
3. Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Question 4

What defines the Cluster B Personality Disorders?

Answer 4

emotional, erratic or dramatic behaviours

Question 5

Which 4 Personality Disorders come under

Cluster B: emotional, erratic or dramatic behaviours

Answer 5

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Antisocial Personality Disorder

Question 7

What defines the Cluster C Personality Disorders?

Answer 7

fear & anxiety

Question 8

Which 3 Personality Disorders come under

Cluster C: fear, anxiety?

Answer 8

• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Dependent Personality Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Question 9

What are the defining features of Paranoid Personality Disorder

Cluster A (odd, eccentric)

Answer 9

• pervasive, unjustified distrust of people
• positive & negative psychotic-like symptoms
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Question 10

What are the defining features of Schizoid Personality Disorder?

Cluster A (odd, eccentric)

Answer 10

• Detachment from others
• Disinterested in others
• Little emotion in interpersonal relationships
  
  • aloof, emotionally cold
• Homelessness
• Diagnosed only if not seen in context of schizophrenia - so seems to be on same continuum
• Psychotic-like symptoms are Negative
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Question 11

How does Schizoid compare to Paranoid Personality Disorder?

Answer 11

Similarities:

• Both Cluster A (odd, eccentric)
• social isolation, poor rapport, reduced affect
• social deficiencies similar but more extreme in Schizoid

Differences:

• Schizoid: doesn’t have unusual thought processes as in Paranoid
• Schizoid symptoms stem from detachment
• Paranoid symptoms stem from distrust & suspiciousness

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Question 12

What are the defining features of Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Cluster A (odd, eccentric)

Answer 12

• social & interpersonal deficits
• difficulty with close relationships
• cognitive & perceptual distortions
• strange, peculiar individuals

Psychotic-like symptoms are positive

Question 13

What are the defining features of Borderline Personality Disorder

Cluster B (emotional, erratic or dramatic)

Answer 13

• Impulsivity
• Instability of relationships, moods & emotions

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Question 14

What is the defining feature of Histrionic Personality Disorder?

Cluster B (emotional, erratic or dramatic)

Answer 14

• overly dramatic
• excessive emotionality, attention seeking

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Question 15

What is the defining feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Cluster B: (emotional, erratic, or dramatic)

Answer 15

unreasonable sense of self-importance 1:06:25

Question 16

What are the defining features of Antisocial Personality Disorder?

Cluster B (emotional, erratic or dramatic)

Answer 16

• disregard for others & violation of others rights
• lack of remorse
• poverty of emotion

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Question 17

What childhood disorder is a precursor for Antisocial Personality Disorder?

Answer 17

Conduct Disorder

Question 18

What are the defining features of Conduct Disorder?

Answer 18

• violation of major age-appropriate norms/rules
• agression, destruction, deceitfulness, theft

Question 19

What is the main difference between Conduct Disorder & Antisocial Personality Disorder?

Answer 19

• lack of remorse in Antisocial Personality Disorder
• remorse, regret is seen Conduct Disorder
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Question 20

What are the defining features of Avoidant Disorder?

Answer 20

• sensitive to social consequences of behaviour
• afraid of criticism, disapproval
• need to be liked

Question 21

How does the asocial behaviour differ between

• Avoidant Personality Disorder (Cluster C fear anxiety)

and

• Schizoid Personality Disorder (Cluster A: odd, eccentric)

Answer 21

• Avoidant Personality Disorder
  
  • Asocial because of interpersonal anxiety or fear of rejection
• Schizoid Personality Disorder
  
  • Asocial because apathetic & disinterested in relationships

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Question 22

What underlies Dependent Personality Disorder?

(Cluster C fear anxiety)

Answer 22

Unreasonable fear of abandonment

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Question 23

What is the defining feature of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?

(Cluster C fear anxiety)

Answer 23

Excessive preoccupation with orderliness & control