Unit 3 - Personality Disorders

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Each of the 10 DSM-5 personality disorders is a constellation of () personality traits, rather than just one particular personality trait

Personality Disorder

When personality traits result in significant distress, social impairment, and/or occupational impairment

Avoidant Personality Disorder

pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

Dependent Personality Disorder

Includes submissiveness, clinging behavior, and fears of separation

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

A disorder of maladaptive conscientiousness, including such traits as workaholism, perfectionism, punctilious, ruminative, and dogged

Borderline Personality Disorder

A disorder of neuroticism, including such traits as emotionally unstable, vulnerable, overwhelmed, rageful, depressive, and self-destructive

Histrionic personality disorder

A disorder of maladaptive extraversion, including such traits as attention-seeking, seductiveness, melodramatic emotionality, and strong attachment needs

Schizoid Personality Disorder

individuals with () personality disorder display a persistent pattern of avoidance from social relationships along with a limited range of emotion among social relationships.

Ego–syntonic

instincts or ideas that are acceptable to the self; that are compatible with one’s values and ways of thinking, even if one’s way of thinking is highly distorted.

Ego-dystonic

Thoughts, impulses, and behaviors that are felt to be repugnant, distressing, unacceptable or inconsistent with one’s self-concept

Difficult 

Personality disorders are among the most () of disorders to treat because they involve well-established behaviors that can be integral to a client’s self-image

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

A form of cognitive-behavior therapy that draws on principles from Zen Buddhism, dialectical philosophy, and behavioral science. It started out as a treatment for Borderline Personality disorder but has become a general treatment for self-regulation difficulties.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

() personality disorder is characterized by a range of impairment in social and interpersonal relationships due to discomfort in relationships, along with odd cognitive and/or perceptual distortions and eccentric behaviors

Ideas of Reference

the belief that unrelated events pertain to them in a particular and unusual way that can lead to superstitious behaviors or preoccupation with paranormal activities

Antisocial Personality Disorder 

Persistent pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others. The pattern of this behavior begins in late childhood or early adolescence and continues throughout adulthoo