Cluster A
What are Cluster A disorders classified by?
What is odd, eccentric thinking or behavior?
What are Cluster B disorders classified by?
What is dramatic, overly emotional, or unpredictable thinking or behavior?
What are Cluster C disorders classified by?
What is anxious, fearful thinking or behavior?
What is the cluster with some known biological factor?
Cluster A
The most commonly diagnosed personality disorders
What is borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder?
What are the 3 Cluster A disorders we mentioned?
What are paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal disorders?
What are the 4 Cluster B disorders?
What are antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders?
What are the 3 Cluster C disorders?
What are avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders?
What category of the psychological approach to personality disorders is dichotomous thinking?
cognitive
Used to treat a wide range of issues. It's often the preferred type of psychotherapy because it can quickly help you identify and cope with specific challenges. It generally requires fewer sessions than other types of therapy and is done in a structured way.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
distrust and suspicion of others, angry reactions to others
What is paranoid personality disorder?
What is the shorthand phrase for antisocial personality disorder?
No Remorse
What are the symptoms of avoidant personality disorder?
social timidness, scared of disapproval, sensitive to rejection
What are the behavioral aspects to personality disorders?
learning and rewarding bad habits or underdeveloped social skills
Not under the control of impulses or behaviors. Becomes preoccupied with perfection.
Obcessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
What is the difference between schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders?
emotionally distant/lack of interest VS. inappropriate social responses/hidden meaning only for you
What are the symptoms of borderline personality disorder?
risky behavior, fear of being alone, anger
What are the symptoms of dependent personality disorder?
dependence on others, lack of self confidence
What was the neurotransmitter that was absent in people with antisocial and borderline personality disorder?
Serotonin
The best treatment results for Borderline Personality Disorder have been shown with a branch of psychological counseling.
What is dialectical behavioral therapy?
Find it hard to respond correctly to social cues, a loner, and lack close friends and other relationships outside of the immediate family, it is usually diagnosed in early adulthood, although some features of this condition may show up during childhood and the teen years, it's likely to be a lifelong condition
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
What is the difference between histrionic and narcissistic personality disorder?
Histrionic- very reliant on other's opinions (attention seeker)
Narcissistic- does not care for anyone's feelings, only believes they're right
What are the symptoms of OCD?
detail, orderliness, and wanting to be in control
The exact causes of this disorder is unknown, however both enviornmental and genetic factors are implicated, the percentage tends to be higher in men than women, most that experience this disorder in adulthood, tend to be diagnosed with conduct disorder in childhood.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Sometimes called sociopathy
What is antisocial personality disorder?