Personality Disorders
The common symptom or behaviour among all Cluster A disorders
What are odd or eccentric behaviours?
What is weird behaviours?
This term describes the symptom of hearing voices that others do not hear
What are hallucinations?
This mood disorder features periods of extreme happiness and periods of deep depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This is the term for using multiple substances simultaneously, which can complicate treatment.
What is polysubstance use?
Schizoid personality disorder, Antisocial personality disorder and Narcissistic personality disorder all share a common gender difference where females are ____ likely to be diagnosed than males.
What is less likely?
This method is often used to diagnose personality disorders based on extreme personality traits.
What is the Five-Factor Model of Personality?
This is a personality disorder associated with a lack of remorse and aggressive behaviour.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by brief periods of psychotic behaviour, but less than a month.
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
A severe form of depression lasting at least two weeks
What is a Major Depressive Episode?
Name the type of drug that can depress central nervous system functions leading to decreased anxiety and sedation.
What are depressants?
The percentage of risk for developing schizophrenia if one has a schizophrenic identical twin.
What is about 50%?
A treatment approach that focuses on modifying distorted thoughts and behaviours.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This cluster is characterized by dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviour. ("Wild" cluster)
What is Cluster B?
This type of schizophrenia includes symptoms of both schizophrenia and mood disorders.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This specifier is used when depressive episodes occur during certain seasons.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
This disorder is characterized by uncontrollable outbursts of anger and aggression.
What is Intermittent Explosive Disorder?
This disorder, which is reported by 2.9 million Canadians (2019), is twice as likely in women than in men.
What are mood disorders?
This treatment uses magnetic fields to treat symptoms of hallucinations.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)?
This disorder involves a persistent need for reassurance and attention.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This term was used by Eugen Bleuler to describe schizophrenia, highlighting a split of thought processes.
What is "split mind"?
Name the disorder characterized by chronic, less severe depression lasting for at least two years.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
What crisis currently impacts Canada, with specifically high rates among First Nations adults and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic?
What is the opioid crisis?
This depressant category substance was reported being used by 14% of women and 9% of men in 2019, with a total of 12% of Canadians using it in the last year.
What are sedatives?
This term describes the use of drugs to manage symptoms of mental disorders.
What is Pharmacotherapy?
This personality disorder is linked with a pattern of unstable relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
The typical antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia.
What are neuroleptics?
What are mood stablizers
This term describes severe mood swings and physical symptoms that occur in the premenstrual phase.
What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)?
This treatment model involves a non-abstinence approach that includes controlled drinking and safe injection sites.
What is Harm Reduction?
Some studies suggest that this impulse-control disorder may be more common in women than in men and that it typically starts in adolescence.
What is Kleptomania?
A therapy designed specifically for Borderline Personality Disorder to reduce self-harm.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
These personality disorders are included in the "Worried" Category, or Cluster C.
What is
Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive & Avoidant Personality disorder?
This category of symptoms includes the five "A's" and is seen in approximately 60% of schizophrenia, leading to the absence or insufficiency of normal behaviour.
What are Negative Symptoms?
Seligman coined this phrase to describe people who become depressed when they feel they have no control over life’s stresses.
What is Learned Helplessness?
Until 1903, Coca-Cola contained 60 milligrams of this substance.
What is Cocaine?
The overdramatization, vanity, seductiveness, and overconcern with physical appearance, are characteristic of the Western “stereotypical female” and may lead to an overdiagnosis of this personality disorder among women.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
This therapy is primarily used to treat impulse control disorders.
What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)?