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Name the General Diagnostic Criteria for a Personality Disorder
- A. Pattern of inner behavior and experience that distinctly deviates from cultural expectations in at least two of the following ways:
- - 1. Cognition.
- - 2. Affectivity.
- - 3. Interpersonal functioning.
- - 4. Impulse control.
- B. The pattern is inflexible and pervasive.
- C. Distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important functioning.
- D. The pattern began in adolescence or early adulthood and is both stable and enduring.
- E. Not better accounted for as a result of another mental disorder.
- F. Not caused by a substance or a general medical condition.
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Name the Cluster A Personality Disorders and State their Commonalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
These individuals often appear odd or eccentric.
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Name the Diagnostic Criteria for Paranoid Personality Disorder
- A. Pervasive distrust of others indicated by four or more of the following:
- - 1. Suspects others of exploition or deception.
- - 2. Doubts trustworthiness of friends.
- - 3. Hesitant to confide in others.
- - 4. Sees hidden negative meanings.
- - 5. Constantly bears grudges.
- - 6. Sees character attacks and reacts angrily.
- - 7. Suspects sex partner of infidelity.
- B. Not solely during Schizophrenia, a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features, or another Psychotic Disorder. Not due to a general medical condition.
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Describe the Diagnostic Criteria for Schizoid Personality Disorder
- A. Detachment from relationships, and a limited range of emotional expression as indicated by at least four of the following:
- - 1. Doesn't desire or enjoy close relationships.
- - 2. Often selects solitary activities.
- - 3. Little interest in sex with others
- - 4. Few activities give pleasure.
- - 5. Doesn't have close friends or confidants.
- - 6. Apathetic to praise or criticism.
- - 7. Demonstrates coolness or flattened affectivity.
- B. Not solely during - Schizophrenia
- - a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features
- - another Psychotic Disorder
- - or a Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
- - Also not due to a general medical condition.
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Name the Diagnostic Criteria for Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- A. Pattern of interpersonal and social deficiencies indicated by at least five of the following:
- - 1. Ideas (excluding delusions) of reference.
- - 2. Odd beliefs or magical thinking.
- - 3. Unusual perceptions.
- - 4. Odd speech or thought patterns.
- - 5. Suspiciousness.
- - 6. Inappropriate or limited affect.
- - 7. Peculiar behavior or appearance.
- - 8. No close friends
- - 9. Extreme social anxiety.
- B. Not solely during Schizophrenia, a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features, another Psychotic Disorder, or a Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
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Name the Cluster B Personality Disorders and State their Commonalities
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
These individuals often appear dramatic, emotional, or erratic.
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Describe the Diagnostic Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder
- A. Since age 15, a disregard for and violation of others' rights as indicated by at least three of the following:
- -- 1. Illegal behavior.
- -- 2. Deceitfulness.
- -- 3. Impulsiveness.
- -- 4. Irritable and aggressive conduct.
- -- 5. Disregard for safety of others and self.
- -- 6. Irresponsible behavior.
- -- 7. Lack of remorse.
- B. The person is at least age 18 years.
- C. Conduct Disorder with onset prior to age 15.
- D. Not solely during the course of Schizophrenia or a Manic Episode.
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Describe the Diagnostic Criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder
- Pervasive pattern of unstable interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects, and impulsivity as indicated by at least five of the following:
- -- 1. Frenzied efforts to avoid abandonment.
- -- 2. Vacillating, intense interpersonal relationships.
- -- 3. Identity disturbance.
- -- 4. Impulsiveness in two self-damaging areas.
- -- 5. Repeated suicidal behavior.
- -- 6. Affective instability.
- -- 7. Chronic feelings of emptiness
- -- 8. Inappropriate and intense anger.
- -- 9. Paranoid ideation or dissociation.
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Describe the Diagnostic Criteria for Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Pattern of seeking attention and extreme emotionality as indicated by at least five of the following:
- - 1. Uncomfortable if not the center of attention.
- - 2. Acts provocatively or sexually seductively.
- - 3. Shifting and shallow expression of emotions.
- - 4. Attracts attention with physical appearance.
- - 5. Uses impressionistic, undetailed speaking style.
- - 6. Uses theatrical expressions of emotion.
- - 7. Is unduly suggestible.
- - 8. Perceives more intimacy in relationships than actually exists.
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Describe the Diagnostic Criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Pervasive pattern of admiration seeking, grandiosity, and lack of empathy, that includes at least five of the following:
- - 1. Grandiose feeling of self-importance.
- - 2. Fantasizes success, power, brilliance, beauty, or love.
- - 3. Sees self as special and unique.
- - 4. Demands inordinate admiration.
- - 5. Believes in self entitlement.
- - 6. Exploits others.
- - 7. Not empathetic.
- - 8. Envies others or thinks they envy him or her.
- - 9. Is arrogant or haughty.
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Name the Cluster C Personality Disorders and State their Commonalities
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
These individuals often appear anxious or fearful.
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Describe the Diagnostic Criteria for Avoidant Personality Disorder
- A pervasive pattern of inadequacy, sensitivity, and inhibition, indicated by at least four of the following:
- -- 1. Avoids occupational activities involving interpersonal contact.
- -- 2. Shuns involvement with people unless sure of being liked.
- -- 3. Restrained in intimate relationships.
- -- 4. Preoccupied by criticism or social rejection.
- -- 5. Inhibition and feelings of inadequacy in new situations.
- -- 6. Feels inept, unappealing, or inferior.
- -- 7. Avoids personal risks or potentially embarrassing activities.
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Describe the Diagnostic Criteria for Dependent Personality Disorder
- Extreme need to be taken care of as indicated by at least five of the following:
- -- 1. Difficulty in decision-making.
- -- 2. Requires others to bear responsibility in major areas of his or her life.
- -- 3. Has difficulty disagreeing with others.
- -- 4. Difficulties in initiating projects.
- -- 5. Goes to lengths to obtain support of others.
- -- 6. Uncomfortable or helpless when alone.
- -- 7. Urgently needs care and support from a new relationship when a close bond ends.
- -- 8. Unrealistic fears about taking care of himself or herself.
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Describe the Diagnostic Criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Pervasive pattern of perfectionism, control and orderliness as indicated by four or more of the following:
- - 1. Preoccupation with details and order.
- - 2. Perfectionism interferes with getting work done.
- - 3. Work supercedes leisure activities.
- - 4. Inflexible in moral and ethical matters.
- - 5. Difficulty in discarding worthless objects.
- - 6. Hesitates to delegate tasks or work with others.
- - 7. Stingy spending habits.
- - 8. Stubborn and rigid.
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