DSM-5 Cluster A:
How are cluster A Personality Disorders described or what are the characteristics?
Cluster A PDOs often have odd & eccentric behaviors and are socially isolated and withdrawn.
Describe Cluster B Personality Disorders
Cluster B PDO's often have dramatic and erratic behavior
How is Avoidant Personality Disorder characterized?
The Avoidant Personality Disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and a hypersensitivity to negative evaluation. People with this disorder are intensely afraid that others will ridicule them, reject them, or criticize them.
This is the main treatment for all 10 Personality Disorders.
What is Psychotherapy
Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, What is the primary goal for all PDO patients?
What is safety.
This personality disorder causes patterns of distrustful behavior.
Paranoid personality disorder
What PDO is typical of the old psychopath/sociopath that has no remorse
Antisocial PDO; may exhibit conduct disorder or oppositional defiant behavior in early age
These type of people are preoccupied with rules, regulations, and orderliness
Persons with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Nurses must first be self aware of what unconscious discriminatory attitude when dealing with PDOs?
What is implicit bias.
What are safety and setting boundaries.
This personality disorder has some of the following traits:
What is Schizoid personality disorder
This personality disorder is has a sense of grandiosity of self and has no concern or empathy for others
Narcisstic PDO
What is the commonality for those in Cluster C
Cluster C is called the anxious, fearful cluster. It includes the Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders. These three personality disorders share a high level of anxiety.
This therapy technique focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in the client's present behavior.
What is psychodynamic therapy.
Finding and maintaining interpersonal relationships is the primary goal for which Cluster group?
Who is Cluster A.
Which personality disorder is most like schizophrenia. It has numerous social and interpersonal problems; wants intimacy but just can't get it together; has ideas of reference with incorrect interpretation of a casual incident as having a particular or unusual meaning to the person.
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder
This PDO is overly dramatic
Histrionic PDO
What is the core feature of the Dependent Personality Disorder?
A strong need to be taken care of by other people. This need to be taken care of, and the associated fear of losing the support of others, often leads people with Dependent Personality Disorder to behave in a "clingy" manner; to submit to the desires of other people.
This type of therapy helps people to identify their unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors with the therapist, then work together to challenge and restructure these into more healthy and positive thoughts and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Decreasing anxiety levels is the primary goal among what Cluster group?
Who is Cluster C
What is the onset of the Cluster A personality disorder?
The onset of this group of personality disorders begins early in life and interferes with social and occupational functions
Which PDO has instability of self; has to be in control; has to have clear boundaries and to defuse the crisis in treatment; treatment modality best used to treat client is dialectical behavior therapy-teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, to regulate their emotions and to improve their relationship with others
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
Although everyone can exhibit some of these personality traits of Cluster C from time to time, what is required for a diagnosis?
To meet the diagnostic requirement of a personality disorder, these traits must be inflexible; i.e., they can be repeatedly observed without regard to time, place, or circumstance. Furthermore, these traits must cause functional impairment and/or subjective distress.
This therapy focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Process emotions, setting boundaries, reducing anxiety, suggest coping skills and empower clients are all goals of what?
What is an empathetic nurse and a therapeutic relationship.