Module Five PERSONALITY DISORDERS

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Module FivePERSONALITY DISORDERS

• Lesson 1 Human Personality
• (2 training hours)
• Lesson 2 Various Personality Disorders
• (2 training hours)
• TOTAL TIME 4 TRAINING HOURS OF 45 MINUTES

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Lesson 1

• HUMAN PERSONALITY
• TIME
• 90 minutes (2 training hours of 45 minutes)
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Step 1 Brainstorming (10?)

• What do we mean with human personality ?

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Step 2 Slide projection (15?)

• Slide 5.1.1 The definition of personality
• The term of personality refers to the standard
  characteristics of the person that are manifested
  by the way the person behaves in a range of
  different situations.

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Step 3 Exercise (20?)

• Leaflet 5.1.1 characteristics of people
  personalities
• Write beside the personality characteristics
  mentioned another five characteristics which are
  usually related to the mentioned one.

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Step 4 Exercise (25?)

• Leaflet 5.1.2 Exercise
• Write ten personality characteristics of a person
  familiar to you and mention the positive and the
  negative effects of those in the life of this
  person.

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Step 5 Discussion (10?)

• Which are the factors that determine the
  personality of a person ?

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Step 6 Questions and comments (5?)

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Step 7 Lessons evaluation (5?)

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Lesson 2

• VARIOUS PERSONALITY DISORDERS
• TIME
• 90 minutes (2 training hours of 45 minutes)
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Step 1 Theory presentation (10?)

• Describing a Personality Disorder is a difficult
  task and leads to one of the most contradictory
  fields of psychiatry.
• It is (generally) accepted that the disorder
  exists when the person himself or other people
  around him suffer from his personality.
• Personality Disorders are very common and appear
  at 10-20 of the population. Some are more
  frequent to men (Antisocial) and other to women
  (Borderline, Dependent).
• The severity of pathologic characteristics is
  milder as the person grows older.
• The therapeutical interventions are mostly
  psychological.

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Step 2 slide projection (5?)

• Slide 5.2.1 definition of Personality Disorder
  according to DSM IV
• Personality disorder is a insistent and lasting
  type of intrinsic emotion and behaviour which
  deviates from the expectations of the persons
  culture, is widely spread and unbending, begins
  in adolescence or during young adulthood, is
  (forever) stable and leads to subjective
  disturbance or functional decline.

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Step 3 Slide Projection (10?)

• Slide 5.2.2 General characteristics of
  Personality Disorders
• Rigid and difficulty adaptation reaction to
  stress
• Marked unstable interpersonal relationships, in
  work and entertainment
• Attributing responsibility of their problems to
  others
• Lack of self awareness
• Appearance of complications

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Step 4 Slide projection (5?)

• Slide 5.2.3 categories of patients with
  Personality Disorders.
• ?. Patients that usually appear odd or eccentric
• Paranoid
• Schizoid
• Schizotypal
• ?. Patients that often appear theatrical with
  intense emotions or unstable at their
  interpersonal relationships.
• Antisocial
• Borderline
• Histrionic
• Narcissistic
• G. Patients usually stressed or frightened
• Avoidant
• Dependent
• Obsessive/ Compulsive

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Step 5 Theory presentation (15?)

• Paranoid Personality Disorder
• Distrust and suspicion towards others in a way
  that their motives are always considered as
  evil-minded.

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Step 5 (continued)

• Schizoid Personality Disorder
• detachment from social relationships and a very
  limited range of emotion

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Step 5 (continued)

• Schizotypal Personality Disorder
• Marked difficulty and insufficiency in
  interpersonal relationships and eccentricity,
  peculiarity, fussiness in thinking, talking
  (conversation, conversing) and behavior.

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Step 5 (continued)

• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Long history of disregard and violation of others
  rights, manifested with irresponsible behavior
  and absence of guilt, indifference for the law
  and illegal behavior, impossibility to keep a
  steady job, exploitation, and manipulation of
  others for personal interest, deceiving others
  and difficulty in stable relationships.

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Step 5 (continued)

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Marked instability expressed in different
  situations of the persons life, as interpersonal
  relationships, image for self and instability in
  affect, as well as great impulsiveness.

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Step 5 (continued)

• Histrionic Personality Disorder
• exaggerated displays of emotional reactions,
  attention seeking.

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Step 5 (continued)

• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Great sense of self importance and grandeur,
  marked need for admiration and failure to be
  interested and recognize the needs, experiences
  and feelings of others.

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Step 5 (continued)

• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Marked social inhibition, feeling of inadequacy
  and extreme sensitivity to criticism.

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Step 5 (continued)

• Dependent Personality Disorder
• Is characterized with a extreme need of being
  looked after by others, to a point where there is
  submissive behavior and fear of separation.

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Step 5 (continued)

• Obsessive compulsive Personality Disorder
• Obsessive about keeping things in order,
  perfectionism and controlling, which leads to
  lack of flexibility, inability to openly express
  emotions and be productive

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Step 6 Exercise (35?)

• Leaflet 5.2.1 Exercise
• Read carefully the personality characteristics
  mentioned that characterize persons with
  Personality Disorder and complete beside which of
  those could characterize a specific Personality
  Disorder.

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.4 Paranoid Personality Disorder
•  The person
• suspects with no grounds that others are
  exploiting, harming, or deceive her / him.
• bothered by Unjustified doubts about a friends /
  associates loyalty or trustworthiness.
• unwilling to confide personal matters to others.
• Finds hidden demeaning or threatening meanings in
  harmless remarks.
• Unable to forgive and bears grudges. he / she
  cannot forgive insults, traumatisms or
  underestimating him/ her.
• Perceives attacks against his/her personality or
  reputation and counteracts with anger.
• Has recurrent groundless suspicions, regarding
  the faithfulness of his wife/ her husband or
  sexual partner.

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.5 Schizoid Personality Disorder
•  the person
• Neither wants nor is happy with close
  relationships.
• Almost always chooses solitary activities.
• Has little interest, if none, in having sex with
  another person.
• Few activities make him happy, if any.
• Has no close or trustful friends.
• Appears indifferent to praise or criticism.
• Shows emotional coldness, is distant or has
  flattened emotions.

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.6 Schizotypal Personality Disorder
•  the person appears
• Ideas of reference .
• Magical thinking or odd beliefs.
• Odd perceptual experiences.
• Odd thinking or speech.
• Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation.
• Narrowed or inappropiated affect.
• Eccentric, odd, or peculiar behavior /
  appearance.
• Few or no close friends or confidants.
• Excessive social anxiety that is not reduced
  through familiarity and tends to be related with
  paranoid fears than low self esteem.

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.7 Antisocial Personality Disorder
•  it is manifested
• Inability to follow society rules according o
  lawful behaviour.
• Conning, repeated lying, use of false names etc.
• Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive
• Irritability and aggressiveness.
• Reckless when it comes to their or others safety.
• Constant negligence.
• Lack of guilt.

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.8 Borderline Personality Disorder
•  There are
• Going to about any lengths to avoid real or
  imagined abandonment.
• Intense unstable interpersonal relationships
  characterized by characterized by idealization
  and followed by devaluation.
• disturbance of identity A Marked instability of
  self image or the sense of self.
• Impulsiveness.
• Recurrent suicidal behavior.
• Instability in affect due to intense reactivity
  of mood.
• Long lasting feelings of emptiness, intense anger
  or difficulty in controlling anger.
• Temporary paranoid ideation or dissociative
  symptoms related to stress.

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.9 Histrionic Personality Disorder
•  it is characterized by the following
• Uncomfortable if not the center of attention.
• Shows inappropriate provocative or seductive
  manner.
• Shows shallow and rapid changing of emotion.
• Uses appearance to draw attention.
• Speech that lacks in detail and excessively
  impressionistic.
• Theatrical, self dramatization, or out of
  proportion expression of emotion.
• Easily influenced, suggestible.
• Feels even a sociable relationship is intimate

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.10 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
•  the person
• Has grandiose sense of self-importance.
• Is preoccupied by fantasies of unlimited success,
  power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love.
• Has a belief of being special and unique.
  Demands excessive admiration.
• Has a sense of special rights.
• Will use others to achieve her / his goals.
• Lacks empathy.
• Often envies others or believes others are
  envious of her / him.
• Has contemptuous or  haughty attitudes.

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.11 Avoidant Personality Disorder
•  the person
• Avoids professional activities that involves
  important interpersonal contact.
• Is unwilling to get involved due to a fear of not
  being liked by others.
• Shows restraints in intimate relationships due to
  a fear of shame.
• Has great worry whether she/ he will be
  criticized or rejected by others.
• Keeps back from new interpersonal situations due
  to feelings of inadequacies.
• Views oneself as inferior, socially inept, or
  personally unappealing.
• Is unwilling to takes part in new activities, for
  a fear of being embarrassed.
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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.12 Dependent Personality Disorder
•  The person
• Has a hard time in making everyday decisions with
  out getting advice from others.
• Needs others to take the responsibility for the
  major areas of his / her life.
• Unable to make an argument with others.
• Difficulty in doing things on their own.
• Does exceeding efforts to get the support of
  others.
• Feels uncomfortable on its own as he/she fears
  that cannot look after himself/herself.
• When one intimate relationship is over he/she is
  compelled to seek a new one.
• Is intensely and unreasonably preoccupied with
  fears he/she will be left alone.

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Step 6 (continued)

• Slide 5.2.13 Obsessive Compulsive Personality
  Disorder
•  The person
• Has marked preoccupation with details, lists, orde
  r, organization, rules, or schedules.
• Has marked perfectionism that interferes with the
  completion of the task.
• Is exceedingly devoted to work and productivity.
• Is over scrupulous, meticulous and inflexible in
  matters of morality, ethics or values.
• Is unable to throw out worn-out, useless, or
  worthless objects, with no sentimental value.
• Does not do apportion of tasks/duties.
• Becomes stingy.
• Is Stubborn and rigid.

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Step 7 Questions and comments (5?)

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Step 8 Lessons evaluation (5?)