Diagnoses Part 1
A personality disorder characterized by neediness and clinging to others
What is dependent personality disorder?
Assistance with accessing services is part of what this type of clinician might do to help someone with a PD.
What is a social worker?
According to the DSM, a child or adolescent must have symptoms of a personality disorder for at least this long in order to be diagnosed.
What is 1 year.
This personality trait describes being easily upset (angry, anxious, stressed, sad, etc).
What is neuroticism?
This disorder is characterized by a need for admiration and expectation of special treatment
Antipsychotic medication may be part of the treatment plan for this cluster of PDs.
What is cluster A?
This diagnosis involves a persistent disregard of the rights and feelings of others
Everyone with antisocial personality disorder met criteria for this diagnosis in the childhood/teens.
What is conduct disorder?
This personality trait, often considered to be a good thing, when too extreme characterizes dependent personality disorder
What is agreeableness?
This diagnosis may actually be a more chronic and less severe form of schizophrenia
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
This cluster of PDs is most likely to receive treatment in an outpatient setting.
What is cluster C?
This personality disorder may not be highly impairing for the individual, at least in the context of work.
What is obsessive compulsive personality disorder?
Making a child feel overly responsible for their actions and very guilty if they do things wrong may be a parenting style that contributes to the development of this personality disorder.
What is obsessive compulsive personality disorder?
Openness to experience, when it gets to a maladaptive extreme, becomes this.
What is psychoticism?
Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment is a criterion of this personality disorder
What is borderline personality disorder?
This acronym stands for the steps used in DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness to ask for what you want/say no to something.
What is DEAR MAN?
This diagnosis involves a lack of interest in interpersonal relationships
What is schizoid personality disorder?
According to the biosocial model of BPD, a biologically based sensitivity to emotions combines with this situation in childhood to produce BPD.
What is an invalidating environment?
On the dimensional model, this diagnosis is most notably characterized by extremely high extraversion
What is histrionic personality disorder?
Someone with this personality disorder may skip activities involving other people, even if they would otherwise really like to go.
What is avoidant personality disorder?
This communication style is sometimes used in DBT to bring humor into a heavy situation or jolt a client out of an intense pattern of thinking.
What is irreverence?
This diagnosis includes dramatic displays of emotion.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
BPD symptoms tend to peak, at least in girls/women, at around this age.
What is 15 years old?
The personalities of successful serial killers and other mastermind psychopaths differ from typical psychopaths and from people with general ASPD in this way.
What is being higher in conscientiousness?