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Personality Disorders

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An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the expectation of the individual's culture. It is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolexcence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment.   show
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An enduring pattern of behavior considered to be both conscious and unconscious and reflects a means to adapting to a particular environment and its cultural, ethnic, and community standards.   show
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show personality disorders  
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show physical complaints, mental health  
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show Inherited personality traits  
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What are common defense mechanisms used by persons with personality disorders?   show
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show paranoid personality disorder  
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Persons with this personality disorder demonstrate jealousy, controlling behaviors, and an unwillingness to forgive.   show
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show schizoid  
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show schizoid PD  
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Persons with this personality disorder have the central characteristics of odd beliefs leadin gto interpersonal difficulties. They have an eccentric appearance and show evicence of magical thinking.   show
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show Schizotypal PD  
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What are the characteristics for a person with paranoid PD?   show
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show Reclusive, uncooperative.  
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show Ideas of reference, cognitive/perceptual distortions, socially inept, and anxious  
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show low dose antipaychotics  
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What medication are used in therapy for the paranoid patient?   show
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What medication are use in therapy for the schizoid patient?   show
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show Disregard for the rights of others.  
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show Pervasive pattern of unstable interpersonal relationships; master manipulators.  
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What are the characteristics for a person with narcissistic PD?   show
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What are the characteristics for a person with histrionic PD?   show
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What medications are used in therapy for the borderline patient?   show
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show pharmacologic agents for aggression such as lithium, anticonvulsants, and SSRI's.  
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show There are no specific medications.  
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What medications are used in therapy for the histrionic patient?   show
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What are the characteristics for a person with dependent PD?   show
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show preoccupied with perfectionism  
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What are the characteristics for a person with avoidant PD?   show
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show None, only supportive therapy, group therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy.  
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show Clomipramine (Anafranil) TCA, and SSRI's for obssessional thinking and depression.  
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show MAOI's and anxiolytics  
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show treatment goals  
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When assessing a patient with a PD it is important to obtain a full   show
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What kind of history is it necessary to obtain when assessing a patient with a PD?   show
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What is the number one priority in assessing the person with a PD?   show
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show Assess for suicide, other psychiatric/medical disorder, background, recent important loss, and change of personality.  
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show fear of potential harm or loss  
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Patients with PD's require a sense of control over what is happening to them. Giving them realistic choices may enhance   show
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show Set limits, offer support, teach healthy strategies for coping, deal with confrontations with a firm and constructive demeanor, offer praise when appropriate, and review principles with the patient.  
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show dialectical behavior therapy  
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show setting limits  
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The tendency to develop a PD may have   show
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show inflexible and maladaptive responses to stress  
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show antisocial personalities  
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The primary goal of milieu therapy for clients with personality disorders is   show
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Characteristic behaviors the nurse will assess in the narcissistic client are   show
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show hospitalization  
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show deceitfulness, impulsiveness, and lack of empathy  
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Splitting is a process in which the client   show
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A nurse is assigned to work with a client with borderline personality disorder. The nurse will need to consider strategies for dealing with the client's   show
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The priority nursing intervention for a client with borderline personality disorder is to   show
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A danger of working with a client who idealizes the nurse is   show
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