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Whate is described as a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts?
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Paranoid personality disorder
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Individuals with ___________ disorder are constantly on guard, hypervigilant, and ready for any real or imagined threat. They appear tense and irritable. They have developed a hard exterior and become immune or insensitive to the feelings of others. They avoid interactions with other people, lest they be forced to relinquish some of their own power. They always feel that others are there to take advantage of them
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paranoid personality
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Name the disorder: They are extremely oversensitive and tend to misinterpret even minute cues within the environment, magnifying and distorting them into thoughts of trickery and deception. Because they trust no one, they are constantly “testing” the honesty of others. Their intimidating manner provokes almost everyone with whom they come in contact into exasperation and anger.
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Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Name the disorder: Individuals who maintain their self-esteem by attributing their shortcomings to others. They do not accept responsibility for their own behaviors and feelings and project this responsibility on to others. They are envious and hostile toward others who are highly successful and believe the only reason they are not a successful is because they have been treated unfairly.
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Paranoid Personlity Disorder
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What disorder is characterized primarily by a profound defect in the ability to form personal relationships or to respond to others in any meaningful, emotional way?
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Schizoid personality disorder
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People with what disorder appear cold, aloof, and indifferent to others. They prefer to work in isolation and are unsociable, with little need or desire for emotional ties. They are able to invest enormous affective energy in intellectual pursuits.
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Schizoid personality disorder
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Name the disorder: In the presence of others they appear shy, anxious, or uneasy. They are inappropriately serious about everything and have difficulty acting in a light hearted manner. Their behavior and conversation exhibit little or no spontaneity. Typically they are unable to experience pleasure, and their affect is commonly bland and constricted.
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Schizoid personality disorder
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Clinicans have noted that this disorder occurs in adults who experienced cold, neglectful, and ungratifying relationships in early childhood, which leads these person to assume that relationships are not valuable or worth pursuing.
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Schizoid Personality Disorder
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Individuals with this disorder were once described as “latent schizophrenics”. Their behavior is odd and eccentric but does not decompensate to the level of schizophrenia.
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schizotypal personality
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Individuals with this disorder are aloof and isolated and behave in a bland and apathetic manner. Magical thinking, ideas of reference, illusions, and depersonalization are part of their everyday world. Examples include superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or “sixth sense,” or beliefs that “others can g\feel my feelings.”
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Schizotypal personality disorder
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Name the disorder: The speech pattern is sometimes bizarre. People with disorder often cannot orient their thoughts logically and become lost in personal irrelevancies and in tangential asides that seem vague, digressive, and not pertinent to the topic at hand. This feature of their personality only further alienates them from others.
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Name the disorder: Under stress, these individuals may decompensate and demonstrate psychotic symptoms, such as delusional thoughts, hallucinations, or bizarre behaviors, but they are usually of brief duration. They often talk or gesture to themselves, as if “living in their own world”. Affect is bland or inappropriate, such as laughing at their own problems or at a stuation that most people would consider sad.
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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This disorder is a pattern of socially irresponsible, exploitative, and guiltless behavior that reflects a disregard for the rights of others. These individuals exploit and manipulate others for persona gain and have a general disregard for the law. They have difficulty sustaining consistent employment and in developing stable relationship.
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Antisocial personality disorder
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In what personality disorder are individuals more likely to be encounter in prisons, jails, and rehabilitation services. They are not often seen in most clinical settings.
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Antisocial personality disorder
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Name the disorder: They appear cold and callous, often, often intimidating others with their brusque and belligerent manner. They tend to be argumentative and, at times, cruel and malicious. They lack warmth and compassion and are often suspicious of these qualities.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Individuals with this disorder have a very low tolerance for frustration, act impetuously, and are unable to delay gratification. They are restless and easily bored, often taking chances and seeking thrills, as if they were immune to danger.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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When things go their way, individuals with this disorder act cheerful, even gracious and charming. Because of their low tolerance for frustration, this pleasant exterior can change very quickly. Their first inclination is to demean and dominate.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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One of the most distinctive characteristic is their tendency to ignore conventional authority and rules. Established social norms and guidelines for self-discipline and cooperative behavior do not apply to them.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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What are the circumstances that may influence the predisposition to anitsocial personality disorder?
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1. Absence of parental discipline.
2. Extreme Poverty 3. Removal from the home 4. Growing up without parentla figures. 5. Erratic and inconsistent methods of discipline 6. Being "rescued" each time they are in trouble (never having to suffer the consequences of one's own behavior) 7. Maternal depreivation |
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What disorder is characterized by a pattern of intense and chaotic relationships, with affective instability and fluctuating attitudes toward other people. These individuals are impulsive, and indirectly self-destructive, and lack a clear sense of identity.
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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Individuals with what disorder always seem to be in a state of crisis. Their affect is one of extreme intensity and their behavior reflects frequent changeability. These changes can occur within days, hours, or even minutes. Often these individuals exhibit a single, dominant affective tone, such as depressions, which may giver way periodically to anxious agitation or inappropriate outbursts of anger.
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borderline personality disorder
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Depression is common in what disorder. Depression occurs in response to feelings of abandonment by the mother in early childhood.
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borderline personality disorder
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In what disorder would a chronic fear of abandonment, prefer a frantic search for companionship, to sitting with feelings of loneliness, emptiness, and boredom.
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borderline personality disorder
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Splitting
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An ego defense mechanism that is common in people with borderline personality disorder. It arises from their lack of achievement of object consistency and is manifested by an inability to integrate and accept both positive and negative feedback
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The individual with borderline personality disorder becomes fixed in which of Mahler's 6 phases?
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Rapprocment - Phase 5 - 16-24 months. Awareness of separateness of the self becomes acute
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This disorder is characterized by colorful, dramatic and extroverted behavior in excitable, emotional people.
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Histronic Personality Disorder
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People with this disorder have a tendency to be self-dramatizing, attention seeking, overly gregarious and seductive. They use manipulative and exhibitionistic behaviors in their demands to be center of attention.
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histrionic personality disorder
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People with this disorder often demonstrate, in mild pathological form, what our society tends to foster and admire in its members: to be well liked, popular, extroverted, attractive and sociable. However, beneath these characteristics is a driven quality – an all-consuming need for approval and a desperate striving to be conspicuous and attract attention.
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histrionic personality disorder
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Individuals with this disorder are highly distractible and flighty. They have difficulty paying attention to detail. They can portray themselves as carefree and sophisticated on the one hand and as inhibited and naïve on the other.
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histrionic personality disorder
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Somatic complaints are not uncommon in these individuals, and fleeting episodes of psychosis may occur during periods of extreme stress.
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histrionic personality disorder
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Learning experiences may contribute to this disorder if the child may have some to learn that positive reinforcement was contingent on the ability to perform parentally approved and admired behaviors. It is likely that the child rarely recieved either positive or negative feedback.
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histrionic personality disorder
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Persons with this disorder have an exaggerated sense of self-worth. They lack empathy, and are hypersensitive to the evaluation of others. They believe that they have the inalienable right to receive special consideration and that their desire is justification for possessing whatever they seek.
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narcissistic personality disorder
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Individuals with this disorder appear to lack humility, being overly self-centered and exploiting others to fulfill their own desires. They often do not conceive of their behavior as being inappropriate or objectionable.
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narcissistic personality disorder
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Although often grounded in grandiose distortions of reality, their mood is usually optimistic, relaxed, cheerful, and carefree. This mood can easily change, however, because of their fragile self-esteem. If they do not meet self-expectations, do not receive the positive feedback they expect from others, or draw criticism from others, they may respond with rage, shame, humiliation, or dejection. They may turn inward and fantasize rationalizations that convince them of their continued stature and perfection.
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narcissistic personality disorder
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The exploitation of others for self-gratification results in impaired interpersonal relationships. In selecting a mate, narcissistic individuals frequently choose a person who will provide them with the praise and positive feedback that they require and who will not ask much from his or her partner in return.
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narcissistic personality disorder
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The individual with this disorder is extremely sensitive to rejections and because of this may lead a very socially withdrawn life. It is not that ho or she is asocial; in fact, there may be a strong desire for companionship. The extreme shyness and fear of rejections, however, create needs for unusually strong guarantees of uncritical acceptance.
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Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Individuals with this disorder are awkward and uncomfortable in social situations. From a distance, others may perceive them as timid, withdrawn, or perhaps cold and strange. Those who have closer relationships with them, however, soon learn of their sensitivities, touchiness, evasiveness, and mistrustful qualities.
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Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Their speech is usually slow and constrained, with frequent hesitations, fragmentary thought sequences, and occasional confused and irrelevant digressions. They are often lonely, and express feelings of being unwanted. They view others as critical, betraying, and humiliating. They desire to have close relationships, but avoid them because of their fear of being rejected. Depression, anxiety, and anger at oneself for failing to develop social relations are commonly experienced.
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Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Individuals with this disorder are inflexible and lack spontaneity. They are meticulous and work diligently and patiently at tasks that require accuracy and discipline. They are especially concerned with matters of organization and efficiency and tend to be rigid and unbending about rules and procedures.
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
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Social behavior tends to be polite and formal. They are very “rank conscious” a characteristic that is reflected in their contrasting behaviors with “superiors” as opposed to “inferiors”. They can be very solicitous to and ingratiating with authority figures. However, with subordinates the compulsive person is quite autocratic and condemnatory, often appearing pompous and self-righteous.
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
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People with this disorder typify the “bureaucratic personality”, the so-called company man. They see themselves as conscientious, loyal, dependable and responsible and are contemptuous of people whose behavior they consider frivolous and impulsive. Emotional behavior is considered immature and irresponsible.
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
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Although on the surface these individuals appear to be calm and controlled, underneath this exterior lies a great deal of ambivalence, conflict, and hostility. Individuals with this disorder commonly use the defense mechanism of reaction formation. Not daring to expose their true feelings of defiance and anger, they withhold these feelings so strongly that the opposite feelings come forth. The defenses of isolation, intellectualization, rationalization, reaction formation, and undoing are also commonly evident.
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
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These individuals feel cheated and unappreciated. They believe that life has be unkind to them, and they express envy and resentment over the “easy Life” that they perceive others having. When the feel another person has wronged them, they may go to great lengths to seek retribution, or “get even”, but always in a subtle and passive manner rather than discussing their feelings with the offending individual. They demonstrate passive resistance and general obstructiveness in response to the expectations of others.
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Passive-aggressive
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As a tactic of interpersonal behavior, these individuals commonly switch among the roles of martyr, the affronted, the aggrieved, the misunderstood, the contrite, the guilt-ridden, the sickly, and the overworked. In this way, they are able to vent their anger and resentment subtly, while gaining the attention, reassurance, and dependency they crave.
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Passive-aggressive
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