AP Psych Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders

Presented by: Taylor Temple, Cade Pool, Chris Johnson and Diane Pham

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

Causes

Symptoms

Problems (Negative Cycle)

• Child abuse
• Parent's upbringing, expectations of relationships
• inheritance of temperament
• Unstable past relationships (like HPD)

• child abuse or neglect
• genetic inheritance (temperament)

• depression
• anxiety
• suicidal tendencies
• risky sexual behavior
• gambling problems
• incarceration
• social isolation

Treatments

Symptoms

• no regard for right and wrong
• persistent lying and deceit (criminal record)
• manipulation of others
• violent behavior
• irresponsibility in the work environment

• Psychotherapy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Mentalization Behavior Therapy (MBT)
• Moderate medication can be used in conjunction with therapy
• (more common in women)
• (usually diagnosed in mid- to late- adulthood)

• Low self-esteem
• difficulty with relationships (harsh, frantic)
• Short, intense periods of anger, extreme reactions
• Chronic boredom
• Stress induces shifts
• Pairs with depression (suicide, self-harm)

Treatment

Finally

• psychotherapy
• medications (anti-depressants, mood-stabilizers)
• hospitalization
• anger and stress management skills
• cognitive/behavioral therapy (helps uncover and replace negative beliefs and behaviors)

Personality Disorders

•Personality disorders cause changes in mood, thinking, and behavior. These develop from intensifications of normal human emotions and dispositions, whether due to genetic inheritance, upbringing and past relationships, or traumatic experience.

Causes

Works Cited

Treatments

• Parents’/authoritative figure’s influence
• Relationship between mother and father/romantic expectations
• Lack of attention/Excessive attention
• Child abuse
• Low self-esteem
• Genetic inheritance/family history of disorders
• Lack of self-control, self-regulation (of emotions and behavior)

• Long-term therapy (humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive)

• Anger management skills workshop (social-cognitive, humanistic)

• Hospitalization (biological)

• Anti-depression medicines (biological)

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Symptoms

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Causes

•Overvaluation by parents and peers

•Being praised for good looks or abilities by elders

•Severe emotional abuse during childhood and adolescence

•Excessive praise for good behaviors or excessive criticism for bad behaviors during childhood

•Excessive admiration that is not balanced with realistic feedback

• constant seeking of approval
• seductive behavior
• need to be the center of attention
• low tolerance for frustration, mood swings
• believes relationships are more intimate than they actually are
• blaming failures on others
• easily influenced by others
• being overly dramatic

Symptoms

Treatment

(The myth of the Narcissus)

• Reacting to criticism with excessive anger, humility, shame
• Exaggerating one’s importance
• Becoming envious very easily
• Feeling hurt and rejected easily
• Setting unrealistic goals
• Lacking empathy and disregarding other people’s emotions

Causes

• Hospitalization
• continuous psychotherapy sessions
• group therapy sessions
• (No medications are effective in treating NPD)

Treatments

• Child abuse or lack of attention
• genetic inheritance of parents' basic temperaments
• learning from their lifestyle example

• (often seek help after a major breakup or similar relationship crisis)
• long-term psychotherapy
• cognitive therapy
• (are capable of being fully-functional in society)