Clusters Interventions
Risk for non-suicidal self injury
B
Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control
Obsessive-compulsive
Acute psychotic symptoms
Antipsychotics
Extremely intense emotions that change shift rapidly
Bipolar Disorder
Borderline PD
Design exercises to prevent failures
C
Mistrust and suspicious of others, guarded, restricted affect
Paranoid
Abnormal (ictal) aggression
Benzodiazepines
Internal cues for satiety & hunger altered
Eating disorders
ADHD
Avoid being too “nice” or “friendly”
A
Disregard for rights of others, rules, and laws
Antisocial
Emotional detachment, not antipsychotics
SSRIs
Confabulation & countertransference
Alzheimer’s disease
Cluster C PD
Risk for suicidal ideation
A
Grandiose, lack of empathy, need for admiration
Narcissistic
Emotional lability
Lithium carbonate
False beliefs (delusions) & magical thinking
Schizophrenia
Cluster A: Schizotypal
Friendly, accepting, reassuring approach
C
Social inhibitions, feelings of inadequacy; hypersensitive to negative evaluation
Avoidant
Organic-like aggression, can be used for AD or BPD
Cholinergic agonists (donepezil)
Attention seeking & Fixations
Cluster B: Histrionic
Autism Spectrum Disorder