Personality Disorders

Front 1

What are the clusters of personality disorders?

Back 1

Cluster A "Mad"

Cluster B "Bad"

Cluster C "Sad"

Front 2

How would you describe generally Cluster A?

Back 2

odd, eccentric group psychotics

Front 3

How would you describe generally Cluster B?

Back 3

Dramatic, Erratic group extroverts

Front 4

How would you describe generally Cluster C?

Back 4

anxious, fearful group Neurotics

Front 5

What are the 3 disorders in Cluster A?

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Paranoid personality disorder

Schizoid personality disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder

Front 6

For paranoid personality disorder what are the criteria and how many do you need?

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SUSPECT
S - Spouse infidelity suspected
U - Unforgiving (bears grudges)
S - Suspicious of others
P - perceives attacks (and reacts quickly)
E - "enemy or friend" (suspects associates, friends)
C - confiding in others feared
T - threats perceived in benign events

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Front 7

For schizoid personality disorder what are the criteria and how many do you need?

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DISTANT
D - detached (or flattened affect)
I - indifferent to criticism and praise
S - sexual experiences of little interest
T - tasks (activities) done solitary
A - Absence of close friends
N - Neither desires nor enjoys close relations
T - Takes pleasure in few activities

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Front 8

For schizotypal personality disorder what are the criteria and how many do you need?

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ME PECULIAR
M - magical thinking or odd beliefs
E - experiences unusual perceptions
P - paranoid idea generation
E - eccentric behaviour or appearance
C - constricted (or inappropriate) affect
U - unusual (odd) thinking and speech
L - lacks close friends
I - ideas of reference
A - anxiety in social situations
R - rule out psychotic disorders and pervasive developmental disorder

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Front 9

What are the 4 disorders in Cluster B?

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder

Front 10

For Antisocial personality disorder what are the criteria and how many do you need?

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CORRUPT
C - conformity to law lacking
O - obligations ignored
R - reckless disregard for safety of self or others
R - remorse lacking
U - underhanded (deceitful;lies or cons others)
P - planning insufficient (impulsive)
T - temper (irritable and aggressive)

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Front 11

For borderline personality disorder what are the criteria and how many do you need?

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AM SUICIDE
A - abandonment
M - mood instability (marked reactivity of mood)
S - suicidal (or self-mutilating behaviour)
U - unstable and intense relationships
I - impulsivity (in 2 potentially self-damaging areas)
C - control of anger
I - identity disturbance
D - dissociative (or paranoid) symptoms that are transient and stress-related
E - emptiness (chronically)

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