👽 The Eccentric Three
This personality disorder is characterized by persistent distrust and suspicion of others.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
This personality disorder is marked by unstable relationships, fear of abandonment, and self-harm.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This personality disorder involves an excessive need to be taken care of and difficulty making decisions independently.
What is Dependent Personality Disorder?
The nurse's first priority when caring for patients with personality disorders.
What is safety?
According to the lecture, patients with this personality disorder have the highest risk for suicide and self-harm.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
Patients with this disorder often display magical thinking, odd beliefs, and eccentric behaviors.
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
This Cluster B disorder is associated with grandiosity, lack of empathy, and a need for admiration
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Patients with this disorder avoid social situations because of fear of rejection or criticism
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
This primitive defense mechanism causes patients to see people as either all good or all bad.
What is splitting?
A patient who is angry with the treatment team insists, "You're all angry with me!" This primitive defense mechanism is called:
What is projection?
This personality disorder is characterized by emotional coldness, flat affect, and preference for solitary activities.
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
This personality disorder often includes chronic lying, manipulation, criminal behavior, and lack of remorse.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This personality disorder is characterized by perfectionism, rigidity, and excessive devotion to work.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
When patients display manipulative behaviors, nurses should consistently use this intervention.
What is setting firm, consistent limits?
Name two of the four core skills taught in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
What are mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation
Approximately this percentage of patients with Schizotypal Personality Disorder die by suicide.
What is 10%?
This Cluster B disorder includes excessive emotionality, theatrical behavior, and attention seeking.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Unlike OCD, individuals with this personality disorder usually believe their behaviors are appropriate.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
This is the priority assessment for any patient admitted with a personality disorder.
What is assessment for suicide, self-harm, and homicidal ideation?
A patient says, "I feel like I'm watching myself from outside my body." Which primitive defense mechanism is occurring?
What is dissociation?
Individuals with Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorders may later develop this major psychiatric disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
This evidence-based therapy was originally developed by Marsha Linehan specifically for Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
This cluster is remembered as the "worried" cluster.
What is Cluster C?
A newly admitted patient with Borderline Personality Disorder alternates between praising one nurse and insulting another. Several staff members begin disagreeing about how to manage the patient. What is the most important intervention by the charge nurse?
What is ensure the treatment team develops and consistently follows a unified plan of care with clear boundaries and communication?
These are the four maladaptive areas commonly seen in all personality disorders?
What are cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, and impulse control?