What are
PERSONALITY DISORDERS?
- Rigid, maladaptive patterns of functioning that are stable through time and lead to unhappiness.
What are the
ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS?
- Genetic factors - due to inherited traits
- Temperamental factors - due to emotional climate at home
- Biological factors - due to imbalance in hormones and neurotransmitters
- Psychoanalytic factors - due to fixation at certain psychosexual stage of development
What are the different
TYPES of personality disorders?
- Borderline - fears separation; impulsive; unstable but intense relationship, hypochondriacal
- Antisocial - habitually breaks the law; with low self esteem; lacks sense of guilt.
- Dependent - with incessant demands for attention from others, lacks self confidence, needs excessive reassurance and advice.
- Schizoid - withdrawn last to catch up in fashion, introvert, aloof, has solitary lifestyle.
- Schizotypal - poorly developed social skills, odd, eccentric behavior
- Histrionic - overly concerned with physical appearance attention seeking behavior, extrovert
- Avoidant - fears rejection remains aloof in relationships, feels interior to others
- Paranoid - extreme mistrust and suspiciousness, very private uses projection
- Passive-aggressive - loves to procrastinate; expresses anger through passivity
- Emphatic Narcissistic - (self-love), believe that they are special and they demand special attention
- Obsessive-compulsive - excessively devoted to worK and productivity, perfectionist, inflexible, rigid
What are the
NURSING DIAGNOSES related to personality disorders?
- Ineffective individual coping
- Self-esteem disturbance
What are the
PRINCIPLES OF NURSING CARE?
- Consistency
- Limit setting
