SLK 310 Chapter 12 Adult Psychopathology:

What we consider personality disorders:

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Personality disorders:

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· One important factor to the success (or lack of success) of treatment is how the therapist fells about the client:

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· Distinction between problems of degree and of kind is described as dimensions instead of categories:

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Dimensions:

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Categories:

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Prototypical approach:

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· DSM-5 groups personality disorders into 3 groups/clusters:

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Cluster A includes:

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Cluster B includes:

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Cluster C includes:

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· Men diagnosed with a personality disorder tend to display traits characterised as:

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· Women tend to present with characteristics that are more:

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Major concern with personality disorders is that:

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Paranoid personality disorder:

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· The defining characteristic of people with paranoid personality disorder is:

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A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such as their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by 4 or more of the following (diagnostic criteria for paranoid personality disorder):

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Causes of paranoid personality disorder:

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Management:

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Schizoid personality disorder:

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Pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning early adulthood and is present in various contexts as indicated by 4/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for schizoid personality disorder):

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· Many possible causes for schizoid personality disorder:

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Schizotypal personality disorder:

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Pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships as well as cognitive/perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behaviour, beginning by early adulthood as indicated by 5/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for schizotypal personality disorder):

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Phenotype:

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Genotype:

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Antisocial personality disorder:

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· Antisocial personality disorder has had a number of names:

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Pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 as indicated by 3/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder):

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· 6 of the criteria that Hare includes in his Revised Psychopathy Checklist are as follows:

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Borderline Personality disorder:

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Pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects and marked impulsivity as indicated by 5/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for bordeline personality disorder):

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· Neuroimaging studies point to the limbic network. This area in the brain is involved with:

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· In one study emotion 'shame' was explored in people with this disorder:

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ð They were then asked to say which of the following 4 reactions they would have:

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· Efforts to provide successful treatment are complicated by:

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One of the most thoroughly researched cognitive behavioural treatments is:

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· DBT involves:

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Histrionic personality disorder:

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· They tend be:

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The cognitive style associated with histrionic personality disorder is:

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Impressionistic:

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Pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts as indicated by 5/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for histrionic personality disorder):

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Narcissistic personality disorder:

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A pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicted by 5/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for narcissictic personality disorder):

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Avoidant personality disorder:

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Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts as indicated by 4/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for avoidant personality disorder):

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Dependent personality disorder:

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Pervasive and excessive need to be takes care of that leads to submissive and clinging behaviour and fears of separation as indicated by 5/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for dependent personality disorder):

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Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder:

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Pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of flexibility and openness as indicated by 4/more of the following (diagnostic criteria for OCD personality disorder):

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