• Essential Question
– How do personality disorders affect behavior and mental processes, and how are they treated?
• Key Vocabulary
– Personality Disorders
– Borderline PD
– Avoidant PD
– Schizoid PD
– Antisocial PD
– Histrionic PD
– Narcissistic PD
– Antisocial PD
Unit 11: Abnormal Psychology
Lesson 5: Personality Disorders
• DAILY COMMENTARY:
– Describe three diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia.
– What sorts of medications are used to treat schizophrenia?
• Upcoming Deadlines:
– Assigned Readings: Daily
– Present Projects: April 15-17
– Vocab Quizzes:
• Lessons 1-7: April 15 th
– Mock Exam:
• MC Section:
– 4/17 (Unit 11 test score will be based on relevant questions from the mock exam)
• FRQ Section: Monday, April 13

• 30 Minutes now to research your assigned disorders
• Suggested resources:
– Myers & Griggs; web-based research; the DSM
 My disorder chart is complete. I understand the:
• diagnostic criteria (symptoms)
• Course & prevalence (when it sets in, how common it is)
• Etiology (causes)
• Treatment (medical, therapies, etc.); include at 2-3 options for each disorder
 I have a clear understanding of how each disorder might be treated, and can discuss the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to treatment
 I’ve designed an interactive, multimedia presentation on each assigned disorder.
 I’ve practiced presenting on each disorder.

The prevalence of psychological disorders during the previous year is shown below (WHO, 2004).
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Risk and protective factors for mental disorders
(WHO, 2004).
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• Personality disorders are characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
• They are usually without anxiety, depression, or delusions.
• Medical options are limited at best
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A disorder in which the person (usually men) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. Formerly, this person was called a sociopath or psychopath.
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Understanding Antisocial Personality
Disorder
Like mood disorders and schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder has biological and psychological reasons. Youngsters, before committing a crime, respond with lower levels of stress hormones than others do at their age.
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Understanding Antisocial Personality
Disorder
PET scans of 41 murderers revealed reduced activity in the frontal lobes. In a follow-up study repeat offenders had 11% less frontal lobe activity compared to normals (Raine et al., 1999; 2000).
Normal Murderer
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Understanding Antisocial Personality
Disorder
The likelihood that one will commit a crime doubles when childhood poverty is compounded with obstetrical complications (Raine et al., 1999; 2000).
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• Essential Question
– How do personality disorders affect behavior and mental processes, and how are they treated?
• Key Vocabulary
– Personality Disorders
– Borderline PD
– Avoidant PD
– Schizoid PD
– Antisocial PD
– Histrionic PD
– Narcissistic PD
– Antisocial PD
Unit 11: Abnormal Psychology
Lesson 5: Personality Disorders
• DAILY COMMENTARY:
– Describe three diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia.
– What sorts of medications are used to treat schizophrenia?
• Upcoming Deadlines:
– Assigned Readings: Daily
– Present Projects: April 15-17
– Vocab Quizzes:
• Lessons 1-7: April 15 th
– Mock Exam:
• MC Section:
– 4/17 (Unit 11 test score will be based on relevant questions from the mock exam)
• FRQ Section: Monday, April 13

• Borderline Personality Disorder
– Erratic emotions; unstable relationships; self-damaging and impulsive behaviors; unpredictable aggressive &/or sexual behavior; quick to anger; fear of lonliness
• Schizoid Personality disorder
– suspicious, argumentative, paranoid, continually on the lookout for trickery and abuse, jealous, tendency to blame others, cold and humorless
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
– overly dramatic; attention seekers; easily angered; seductive; dependent on others; vain, shallow, and manipulative; displays intense, but often false emotions
• Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
– indirectly expresses anger by being forgetful and stubborn; procrastinates; cannot admit to feeling angry; habitually late

• Complete the “Imagine a Party” Activity
– Identify the disorder exhibited by each person described on the handout

• CBT
• Humanistic
• Psychotherapy
• Medications typically not recommended option

Unit 11: Abnormal Psychology
Lesson 6: Dissociative & Somataform
• Essential Question
– How do dissociative and somatoform disorders affect behavior and mental processes, and how are they treated?
• Key Vocabulary
– Dissociative Identity Disorder
– Dissociative Amnesia
– Dissociative Fugue
– Somatoform disorders
– Hypochondriasis
– Conversion disorder
Disorders
• DAILY COMMENTARY:
– Describe three diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia.
– What sorts of medications are used to treat schizophrenia?
• Upcoming Deadlines:
– Assigned Readings: Daily
– Present Projects: April 15-17
– Vocab Quizzes:
• Lessons 1-7: April 15 th
– Mock Exam:
• MC Section:
– 4/17 (Unit 11 test score will be based on relevant questions from the mock exam)
• FRQ Section: Monday, April 13

Conscious awareness becomes separated
(dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
Symptoms
1. Having a sense of being unreal.
2. Being separated from the body.
3. Watching yourself as if in a movie.
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Is a disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities, formerly called multiple personality disorder.
Chris Sizemore (DID)
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• Lose track of identity and develop at least 2 others
• Currently just 30,000 diagnosed cases worldwide
– Often caused by traumatic sexual abuse
– Commercial Film: 3 Faces of Eve (recommended)
– “roses are red, violets are blue, I have DID and I do too”

Critics argue that the diagnosis of DID increased in the late 20 th century. DID has not been found in other countries.
Critics’ Arguments
1. Role-playing by people open to a therapist’s suggestion.
2. Learned response that reinforces reductions in anxiety.
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• Dissociative disorder in which an individual cannot remember who they are or anything about their life
– Sets in suddenly without warning
– No known cure
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1is6S4sCK4

• Physical symptoms and pain that cannot be explained by any physical causes, substance abuse, or by other mental illnesses
– Hypochondriasis – individual is convinced they are sick; they have a constant series of medical complaints and need to see doctors; doctors can find nothing wrong
– Conversion disorder – person is struck suddenly with a major disability with no known physical cause
• Loss of vision, hearing, inability to move physically, etc.

• Explain why Dissociative Identity Disorder is perhaps a better name than “multiple personality” disorder