Personality Disorders
The DSM-5-TR organizes the 10 traditional personality disorders into these three groups.
What are Clusters A, B, and C?
This is the primary treatment approach for BPD.
What is Psychotherapy?
A person with BPD may have an intense fear of this, leading to frantic efforts to avoid it.
What is abandonment?
This DBT skill involves paying attention to the present moment without judgment.
What is Mindfulness?
Social workers should see clients as whole people rather than defining them by this.
What is a diagnosis or mental illness?
This cluster contains Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders.
What is Cluster C?
Generally combined with psychotherapy but does not cure BPD.
What is medication?
A person with BPD may rapidly shift between idealizing and devaluing another person. This pattern is often described as this.
What is splitting?
These DBT skills help clients tolerate and survive intense emotional situations without making them worse.
What are Distress Tolerance skills?
Linehan's story demonstrates that this can be possible even after severe mental health struggles.
What is recovery?
This cluster is commonly described as involving behavior that appears odd or eccentric.
What is Cluster A?
This is the most well-researched evidence-based treatment for BPD and teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
BPD commonly involves intense and rapidly changing emotions. This symptom is called this.
What is emotional instability or affective instability?
These skills help clients understand, identify, and change intense emotional responses.
What is Emotion Regulation?
This is the most well-researched evidence-based treatment for BPD and teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
This cluster is characterized by dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior and includes BPD.
What is Cluster B?
This treatment focuses on helping clients understand their own thoughts and feelings as well as the thoughts and feelings of others.
What is Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)?
This BPD symptom involves uncertainty or instability regarding who a person is, their values, goals, or sense of self.
What is identity disturbance?
These DBT skills focus on communicating effectively, maintaining relationships, and getting needs met.
What is Interpersonal Effectiveness?
Sharing lived experience can help challenge this negative social response to mental illness.
What is stigma?
Personality disorders are generally characterized by this type of pattern involving thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is an enduring and inflexible pattern of inner experience and behavior?
This integrative cognitive therapy focuses on changing unhealthy schemas and includes concepts such as the abandoned/abused child and angry/impulsive child.
What is Schema-Focused Therapy (SFT)?
According to DSM-5-TR criteria, a person must demonstrate at least this many characteristic symptoms to meet the diagnostic criteria for BPD.
What is five or more?
A client is extremely angry and wants to send an insulting text to their partner. The therapist encourages the client to pause, observe the emotion, and choose a more effective response. Which DBT concepts are being used?
What are mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation?
This social work perspective considers how relationships, environment, systems, and social conditions affect a person's functioning.
What is person-in-environment?