Chapter 15 assignment
Name of personality
disorder
Paranoid
personality disorder
Schizoid personality
disorder
Symptoms
Cause
Treatment
Mistrust and
suspiciousness
regarding other
people’s motives.
Being socially
isolated, emotionally
cold, as well as
indifferent to other
people.
The use of projection
as a defense
mechanism.
Psychotherapy.
Is associated with
schizophrenia and is
linked to having a
cold and emotionally
impoverished
childhood lacking
empathy.
Having abnormalities
in cognitive
processing.
psychotherapy.
However very little is
known about whether
it works or not since
a lot of people don't
seek medical help.
Schizotypal
personality disorder
Having poor
interpersonal
relationships.
Antisocial
personality disorder
The lack of anxiety
and guilt and
participating in
irresponsible
behaviors.
Intense fluctuations
in mood as well as
self-image.
Borderline
personality disorder
Histrionic
personality disorder
Self-dramatization
and attention seeking
behaviors.
Narcissistic
personality disorder
Exaggerated sense of
self-importance and
lack of empathy
Genetic and
environmental
factors.
Biologically based
vulnerability to
emotional
dysregulation.
additionally,
structural
abnormalities in the
prefrontal cortex and
in a typical pattern of
activation in the
amygdala.
Biological factors
like autonomic or
emotional excitability
and environmental
factors.
the lack of parental
modeling of empathy
during childhood.
Psychotherapy. For
example,
interpersonal
personal
psychotherapy,
cognitive behavioral
approaches, group
psychotherapy.
Talk therapy.
Cognitive-behavior
therapy.
Cognitive-behavior
therapy.
Therapists help
clients increase
empathy skills,
understand the needs
of others, and
Chapter 15 assignment
Avoidant
personality disorder
Persuasive social
inhabitation and fear
of rejection.
Dependent
personality disorder
Excessive
dependence on others
and being submissive
Controlling
interpersonal
behaviors and
perfectionism.
Obsessivecompulsive
personality disorder
-
complex interaction
between early
childhood
environmental
experience and innate
temperament. For
instance, parental
rejection.
Maternal deprivation.
Genetic or early
childhood
environmental
factors.
decrease selfinvolvement.
Cognitive behavioral,
psychodynamic,
interpersonal, and
pharmacological
treatments.
Group and individual
group treatments.
Cognitive behavioral
therapy and
supportive forms of
psychotherapy.
Pick one Personality Disorder that is similar to a mental disorder that we studied in class and create a second
chart listing the differences.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
(OCDP)
A personality disorder
Rigidity in personality present
Need for control present
Perfectionism present
Indecisiveness present
The need to perform rituals not usually
present
Intrusive thoughts and behaviors not usually
present
Orderliness present
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
A mental disorder
Not rigidity in personality
Need for control not usually present
Perfectionism not usually present
Indecisiveness not usually present
The need to perform rituals present
Intrusive thoughts and behaviors present
Orderliness not usually present