Quiz 6 - Essential Features

General Personality Disorder

A pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the norms and expectations of the individual’s culture and is manifested in at least two of the following areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal function, or impulse control

Paranoid Personality Disorder

A pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent. This pattern begins by early adulthood.

Schizoid Personality Disorder

A pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

A pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and redacted capacity for close relationships as well s by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

A pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. This pattern has also been referred to as psychopathy, sociopathy, or dyssocial personality disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

A pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects, and marked impulsivity that begins by early adulthood.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

A pervasive and excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

A pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation that begins by early adulthood.

Dependent Personality Disorder

An excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

A preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.

Personality Changes Due to Another Medical Condition

A personality disturbance that is judged to be a physiological consequence of another medical condition. The personality disturbance represents a change from the individual’s previous characteristic personality pattern

Other specified personality disorder

Symptoms characteristic of a personality disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning do not meet full criteria & the clinician chooses to communicate the specific reaction.

Unspecified personality disorder

Symptoms characteristic of a personality disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning do not meet full criteria & the clinician chooses to NOT communicate the specific reaction.