Cluster A
How are Cluster A disorders classified?
What is odd, eccentric thinking or behavior?
This describes Cluster B disorders.
What is dramatic, overly emotional, or unpredictable thinking or behavior?
This describes Cluster C disorders.
What is anxious, fearful thinking or behavior?
This cluster has some known biological factors.
What is Cluster A?
These are 3 Cluster A disorders we studied?
What are paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal disorders?
List the four Cluster B disorders.
What are antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders?
These are three Cluster C disorders.
What are avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders?
These are characteristics of paranoid personality disorder.
What are distrust and suspicion of others, angry reactions to others
Clients with antisocial personality disorder lack this emotion.
What is remorse?
What are the symptoms of avoidant personality disorder?
social timidness, scared of disapproval, sensitive to rejection
Learning and rewarding bad habits or underdeveloped social skills.
What are the behavioral aspects to personality disorders?
This describes the difference between schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders.
What is emotionally distant/lack of interest VS. inappropriate social responses/hidden meaning only for you?
These are symptoms of borderline personality disorder.
What is risky behavior, fear of being alone, anger?
What are the symptoms of dependent personality disorder?
dependence on others, lack of self confidence
Serotonin
Which neurotransmitter is absent in people with antisocial and borderline personality disorder?
This describes the difference between histrionic and narcissistic personality disorder.
What is....
Histrionic- very reliant on other's opinions (attention seeker)
Narcissistic- does not care for anyone's feelings, only believes they're right
These describe the symptoms of OCD.
What are detail, orderliness, and wanting to be in control?