Social Responses and Personality Development
This term refers to a person’s usual pattern of thinking, feeling, behaving, coping, and relating to others.
Personality
This life stage is a major period for identity development but does not automatically indicate personality disorder.
Biological theory
Suspiciousness, distrust, and belief that others are trying to harm or deceive them suggest this disorder.
Paranoid personality disorder
Attention-seeking, dramatic emotions, and seductive or provocative behavior suggest this disorder.
Histrionic personality disorder
This term means the client has both a mental health disorder and a substance-related disorder.
This occurs when long-standing personality patterns become rigid, maladaptive, and disruptive to functioning.
A personality disorder
This theory connects personality patterns to early relationships, trauma, attachment, and defense mechanisms.
Psychodynamic theory
Detachment from relationships and limited emotional expression suggest this disorder.
Schizoid personality disorder
Grandiosity, need for admiration, entitlement, and lack of empathy suggest this disorder.
Narcissistic personality disorder
SSRIs and SNRIs may be used to treat depression, anxiety, irritability, or obsessive symptoms and belong to this class.
Antidepressants
Healthy social functioning includes trust, communication, empathy, boundaries, and this ability after conflict.
Repairing relationships
This theory suggests behaviors are learned through modeling, reinforcement, and environment.
Behavioral or social learning theory
Odd beliefs, magical thinking, unusual speech, and eccentric behavior suggest this disorder.
Schizotypal personality disorder
Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and fear of rejection suggest this disorder.
Avoidant personality disorder
Lithium, valproate, carbamazepine, and lamotrigine may help mood swings, impulsivity, and anger and belong to this class.
Mood stabilizers
Temperament, attachment, caregiver response, safety, and modeling shape personality during this stage.
Infancy and childhood
This theory focuses on distorted beliefs about self, others, and the world.
Cognitive theory
Disregard for others’ rights, deceitfulness, impulsivity, aggression, and lack of remorse suggest this disorder.
Antisocial personality disorder
Excessive need to be cared for, difficulty making decisions, and fear of separation suggest this disorder.
Dependent personality disorder
Clear expectations, consistent rules, calm follow-through, and team consistency are examples of this nursing intervention.
Maintaining boundaries or limit setting
This life stage is a major period for identity development but does not automatically indicate personality disorder.
Adolescence
Long-standing patterns, rigid behavior, relationship problems, and limited insight are characteristics of this.
A personality disorder
Fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, impulsivity, self-harm risk, and splitting suggest this disorder.
Borderline personality disorder
Perfectionism, orderliness, rigidity, control, and preoccupation with rules suggest this disorder.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
A client tells one nurse, “You are the only one who understands me,” and tells another nurse, “You are cruel and useless.” The client has unstable relationships, self-harm history, and intense fear of abandonment. The nurse recognizes this pattern and maintains consistent team boundaries.
Borderline personality disorder with splitting