Cluster A
This disorder involves distrust and suspicion of others.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
This disorder involves lack of empathy and disregard for others’ rights.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
This disorder involves social inhibition due to feelings of inadequacy.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
A long-term pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from expectations.
A personality disorder
Personality disorders are categorized in this professional diagnostic manual.
DSM-5
People with this disorder may appear eccentric and have magical thinking.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Intense, unstable emotions and fear of abandonment characterize this disorder.
Borderline Personality Disorder
People with this disorder have an excessive need to be taken care of and fear separation.
Dependent Personality Disorder
Splitting the tendency to see others as all good or all bad is most associated with this disorder.
Borderline Personality Disorder
This type of therapy is especially effective for Borderline Personality Disorder.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
People with this disorder prefer social isolation and show limited emotional expression.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
This disorder features excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behaviors.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Preoccupation with order, perfection, and control defines this disorder.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)
This term refers to difficulty forming close, healthy emotional bonds.
Attachment disturbance
True or False: Personality disorders are typically diagnosed in adulthood.
True
Cluster A disorders share this general type of behavior.
odd or eccentric behavior
Grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy fit this disorder.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Avoidant Personality Disorder overlaps with symptoms of this anxiety disorder.
Social Anxiety Disorder
A pattern of manipulating others for personal gain is a key trait of this disorder.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Medications don’t treat personality disorders directly but can help with these kinds of symptoms.
Mood or anxiety symptoms
Schizotypal Personality Disorder is related genetically to this psychotic disorder.
schizophrenia
Cluster B disorders are often linked to issues with these two aspects of self.
Emotional regulation and impulse control
Cluster C disorders share this common emotional theme.
Anxiety or fearfulness
People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder often rely on this kind of external validation.
Admiration or external approval
Chronic, stable patterns that begin by early adulthood are known as this.
Enduring personality patterns