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Personality
Ch 9
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is a personality trait common among people diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder? | low warmth |
| What do people diagnosed with avoid personality disorder do? | shun interactions if there is a possibility of being criticized |
| What's shown in people with schizotypal personality disorder that sets them apart from people with other personality disorders? | oddities in cognition |
| what determines all the ways we have of acting, thinking, believing, and feeling that make each of us unique. | personality! |
| What is the first-line treatment for borderline personality disorder? | psychotherapy! |
| Personality Disorder | patterns of thinking, feeling, & behavior that interfere with an individual’s ability to function adaptively in the world & relate to others |
| What are the two subtypes of narcissism? | grandiose and vulnerable narcissism |
| Schizoid Personality Disorder | Detachment from social relationships & restricted range of affect in interpersonal settings shown by 4 or more symptoms across settings |
| Schizotypal Personality Disorder | social & interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, & reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions & eccentricities of behavior |
| Antisocial Personality Disorder | Pervasive pattern of disregard for & violation of the rights of others |
| What is a pathological personality trait associated with narcissistic personality disorder? | antagonism |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | Pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, & affect, & marked impulsivity |
| Histrionic Personality Disorder | Pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality & attention seeking |
| What is a difference between OCD and OCPD? | OCD have obsessions & compulsions that cause distress, whereas OCPD view their personality as a part of themselves - aka no distress |
| Narcissistic Personality Disorder | Pervasive pattern of grandiosity (fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, & lack of empathy |
| Avoidant Personality Disorder | Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, & hypersensitivity to negative evaluation |
| Avoidant vs. Schizoid/Schizotypal? | Avoidant want relationships with others but are afraid, schizoid & schizotypal don't want social relationships |
| What is Avoidant often comorbid with? | social anxiety disorder |
| What kind of model is the DSM-5's approach to personality disorders? | hybrid |
| Splitting | seeing things as "all good" or "all bad" |
| Grandoise Narcissism | having a grandoise self-belief that one is special, unique, & important; feeling entitled and showing arrogant behaviors, thriving on praise |
| Vulnerable Narcissism | rejection can lead to depression or self-sabotaging behaviors, leading them to be critical of themselves -> distress |
| What are people with avoidant personality disorder prone to? | shame |
| Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized by hypersensitivity to | abandonment |
| What are the most helpful therapies for people with avoidant personality disorder? | cognitive and behavior |
| What are emotional specifics of borderline personality disorder? | - inability to control impulsive behaviors - low awareness & understanding - unwillingness to accept emotion |
| What biological theories contribute to the development of borderline personality disorder? | - parent psychopathology - child physical or sexual abuse - childhood neglect |
| What are features of negative affectivity? | - overreactive to stress - emotionally labile |
| Parasuicidal Gestures | - nonlethal but intentional self-harm often engaged by people with BPD |
| Is BPD more or less commonly diagnosed in POC? | more commonly diagnosed in pocs - hispanics |
| The STEPPS program combines cognitive & behavioral techniques to help people with what personality disorder? | borderline personality disorder |
| Transference-focused psychotherapy | uses the client-clinician relationship as the framework for helping clients achieve greater understanding of their unconscious feelings and motives |
| A criterion for a diagnosis of WHAT personality disorder is a distorted self-concept? | schizotypal |