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Abnormal Psych: Personality Disorders and Stats on
Disorders• Learning Goals:
– Students should be able to answer the following:
13: What characteristics typical of personality disorders?
14: How many people suffer or have suffered from a psychological disorder?
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Rating Student Evidence
4.0 Expert
I can satisfy all the requirements of level 3.0 and debate whether personality disorders might add negative labels to individuals.
★ 3.0 ★Proficient
I can identify specific personality disorders and explain how they differ from Axis I disorders.
2.0 Developing
I can identify personality disorder clusters and some of their subtypes.
1.0Beginning
I need more prompting and/or support to identify the concepts stated in 2.0
Personality Disorders
• Well-established, maladaptive ways of behaving that negatively affect people’s ability to function.
• Dominates their personality.
Personality Disorders
• Patterns of inflexible traits that disrupt social life or work and/or distress the affected individual impairing their social functioning.
• Hard to estimate because people rarely seek treatment (don’t think they have a problem)
• Cluster A: Odd/Eccentric Behaviors– Schizoid (78/22)- Loner– Paranoid (67/33)- Untrusting– Schizotypal (55/45)- Very Odd
• Cluster B: Dramatic/Impulsive Behavior– Narcissistic (70/30) – Better than Everyone– Borderline (38/62) – Unstable– Histrionic (15/85)- Center of Attention– Antisocial (82/18)- No Remorse
• Cluster C: Fearful/Anxiety Behaviors– Avoidant (50/50) - Timid, Shy– Dependent (31/69) – Stage Five Clinger “needy”– Obsessive-Compulsive (50/50) – My way or the highway- Perfectionistic
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Cluster A-Schizoid Personality Disorder
• People with schizoid personality disorder avoid relationships and do not show much emotion
They genuinely prefer to be alone and do not secretly wish for popularity.
Cluster B-Histrionic Personality Disorder
• Needs to be the center of attention.
• acting silly or dressing provocatively or exaggerate illnesses in order to gain attention
• They also tend to exaggerate friendships and relationships, believing that everyone loves them
Cluster B-Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Having an unwarranted sense of self-importance.
• Thinking that you are the center of the universe.
Cluster C- Dependent Personality Disorder
• Rely too much on the attention and help of others.
• has difficulty making everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others
Antisocial Personality Disorder
• AKA: Sociopath or Psychopath– Typically a male, Begins before age 15 – Lies, steals, fights, sexually uninhibited– Don't care about others rights or feelings
• Biological Origins of ASPD– Monoamine oxidase A (the warrior gene)– Reduced arousal in autonomic nervous
system – Reduced activity in frontal lobe gives way
to impulsivity, (orbital cortex damage signifies a psychopath)
• Environmental Origins of ASPD– Family instability– Poverty– Conditioning and Abuse
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Ted BundySerial Killer convicted of killing
several people including Florida State Chi Omega Sorority girls in
1978
Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Lack of empathy.
• Little regard for other’s feelings.
• View the world as hostile and look out for themselves.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Ted Bundy
Rates of Psychological Disorders
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Other Disorders
• Paraphilias(pedophilia, zoophilia, hybristophilia)
• Fetishism • sadist, masochist• Eating Disorders• (Bulimia, Anorexia)• Substance use
disorders
Zoophilia and Masochism: Pony Play
13: What characteristics typical of personality disorders?
14: How many people suffer or have suffered from a psychological disorder?
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Rating Student Evidence
4.0 Expert
I can satisfy all the requirements of level 3.0 and debate whether personality disorders might add negative labels to individuals.
★ 3.0 ★Proficient
I can identify specific personality disorders and explain how they differ from Axis I disorders.
2.0 Developing
I can identify personality disorder clusters and some of their subtypes.
1.0Beginning
I need more prompting and/or support to identify the concepts stated in 2.0
