• Deviates markedly from the expectation of one's culture
• Is pervasive, maladaptive, and inflexible
• Has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood
• Is stable over time
• Leads to distress or impairment

1. Inflexibility / maladaptive responses to stress
2. Disability in social and professional relationships
3. Tendency to provoke interpersonal conflict
4. Capacity to cause irritation or distress in others

What 3 clusters are personality disorders divided into?

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Describe

• Cluster A
  • Generally described as odd or eccentric
• Cluster B
  • Generally described as dramatic, emotional, or erratic
• Cluster C
  • Generally described as anxious or fearful

• Repression
• Suppression
• Regression
• Undoing
• Splitting

• less educated or unemployed
• single or have marital difficulties
• comorbid substance abuse disorders
• may commit nonmiolent and violent crimes
  • including sex offenses

• chonic stress
  • ex: repeated sexual trauma or psychological trama during childhood

• Paranoid personality
• Schizoid personality
• Schizotypal personality

Cluster A personality disorders:

Paranoid Personality

• Characterized by distrust and suspiciousness toward others based on unfounded beliefs that others want to harm, exploit, or deceive the person

Cluster A personality disorders:

Schizoid Personality

• Characterized by emotional detachment, disinterest in close relationships, and indefference to praise or criticism; often uncooperative.

Cluster A personality disorders:

Schizotypal Personality

• Characterized by odd beliefs leading to interpersonal difficulties, an eccentric appearance, and magical thinking or perceptual distortions that are not clear delusions or hallucinations

Cluster B personality disorders:

Antisocial Personality

• Characterized by disregard for others with exploitation, repeated unlawful actions, deceit, and failure to accept personal responsibility.

Cluster B personality disorders:

Borderline Personality

• Characterized by instability of affect, identity, and relationships
• Fear of abandonment, splitting behaviors, manipulation, and impulsiveness
• Often tries self-mutilation and may be suicidal

Cluster B personality disorders:

Histrionic Personality

• Characterized by emotional attention-seeking behavior, in which the person needs to be the center of attention
• Often seductive and flirtatious

Cluster B personality disorders:

Narcissistic Personality

• Characterized by arrogance, grandiose views of self-importance, the need for consistent admiration, and lack of empathy for others that strains most relationships
• Often sensitive to criticism

Cluster C personality disorders:

Avoidant Personality

• Characterized by social inhibition and avoidance of all situations that require interpersonal contact, dispite wanting close relationships, due to extreme fear of rejection
• Often very anxious in social situations

Cluster C personality disorders:

Dependant Personality

• Characterized by extreme dependency in a close relationship with an urgent search to find a replacement when one relationship ends
• The most frequently-seen personality diorder in the clinical setting

Cluster C personality disorders:

Obsessive-compulsive Personality

• Characterized by perfectionism with a focus on orderliness and control to the extent that the individual may not be able to accomplish a given task.