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Presentation and Symptoms
Prevalence and Comorbidity
Causal Factors and Psychology Theories
Relevant Terminology
Potpourri
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These are the three personality disorders of Cluster A.
What are paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders?
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This is the prevalence range for one or more personality disorders.
What is 4.4% to 14.8%?
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Trauma, parental psychopathology and/or failure, and loss and/or rejection are all psychological environmental risk factors that make up a part of this theory for this personality disorder.
What is multidimensional diathesis-stress theory of borderline personality disorder?
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Many features of antisocial personality disorder have been labeled by this term.
What is psychopathy?
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This severe behavior is often associated with borderline personality disorder, which is why BPD has received the most clinical and research attention for treatment.
What is self-mutilation or suicide?
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These are the two main features of personality disorders.
What are chronic interpersonal difficulties and problems with identity or sense of self?
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This is the percent comorbidity of personality disorders.
What is 75%?
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This is the belief in general sociocultural causal factors for personality disorders that may lead to more people developing self-centered lifestyles.

What is impulse gratification, instant solutions, and pain-free benefits?

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These are the two most prevalent and stable features of avoidant personality disorder.
What is socially inadequate and feeling inept?
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This key feature distinguishes people with avoidant personality disorder from schizoid personality disorder.
What is people with avoidant personality disorder are shy, insecure, and hypersensitive to criticism?
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These are the three personality disorders of Cluster C.
What are avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
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This is the reason that the prevalence percentage of people in each cluster adds up to more than 10%.
What is high comorbidity between the clusters?
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This research approach, which relies on information from people that already have a disorder, is one of the difficulties in studying the causes of personality disorders.
What is retrospective approach?
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Psychoticism, a pathological trait of schizotypal personality disorder, consists of these three facets.
What is unusual beliefs and experiences, eccentricity, and cognitive and perceptual dysregulation?
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These are some of the difficulties associated with treatment for personality disorders.
What is client's resistance to change, varied goals, and challenges in forming relationships?
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Histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial, and borderline personality disorders make up this cluster.
What is Cluster B?
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Personality disorders are often comorbid with these other disorders.
What are anxiety disorders, mood disorders, substance use problems, and sexual deviations?
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These factors include: genetic influences, low levels of fear, more general emotional deficits, early parental loss, parental rejection, and inconsistent discipline.
What are the causal factors for psychopathy and antisocial personality?
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This is the most effective therapy approach for people with borderline personality disorder that helps regulate their emotions and create new coping skills.
What is dialectical behavior therapy?
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These are the two dimensions of traits for psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder.
What is affective-interpersonal traits, and antisocial and deviant behavior?
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This is the DSM-5 criteria for enduring pattern of behavior of a personality disorder.
What is pervasive and inflexible, stable and of long duration, clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning, and manifestation in at least two areas?
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Since this large research study has never been done, there is not a lot of evidence for the prevalence of personality disorders.
What is epidemiological study?
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A history of conduct disorder is a common precursor for this personality disorder.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
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Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism all make up this model for diagnosing personality disorders.
What is the five-factor model of personality (OCEAN)?
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These are the general characteristics for each cluster of personality disorders.
What is odd or eccentric for cluster A, dramatic, emotional and erratic for cluster B, and fearfulness or anxiety for cluster C?