PPT-4 Personality

An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting Each dwarf has a distinct personality 5 Psychodynamic Perspective In his clinical practice Freud encountered patients suffering from nervous disorders Their complaints could not be explained in terms of purely physical causes. Who Am I?. Dan Warrender. Staff Nurse. Acute Psychiatric Admission Ward. Early Clinical Career Fellow 2012. MSc Nursing at the University of Aberdeen. Focus on Borderline Personality Disorder. e-mail: . What is Personality?. Personality is the sum of characteristics that make a person unique.. Why Do . W. e Study Personality?. The study of personality helps us to work better with students, athletes, and exercisers.. Significance of Freud:. Popularized the idea of the unconscious. Started psychoanalysis/Founded Psychodynamic theory. Ended the notion that evil spirits caused mental illness. Methods for tapping the unconscious:. Jessica . Mulford. &. Marisa Hawkins . A vignette of Julian Smith . A vignette of Julian Smith. Julian thought since he was the one to put the waffles on his plate, they were his because he is the only one who is important in his mind. . Personality and Values; . Are they related? . What is the framework on the association between the two? . Does Personality explain values or opposite? . What are values? . In general, values are important and enduring beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or desirable and what is not. Values exert major influence on the behaviour of an individual and serve as broad guidelines in all situations. . Amanda Hamilton, LMSW. October, 2013. Table of Contents. Definition of Personality Disorders. Statistical Data. Indicators of a Personality Disorder. DSM IV . vs. DSM V. Overview of Each Personality Disorder. Pia. Torres and Kristine Tran. Period 5. Vignette. Diana Miller, 25, entered a long-term treatment unit of a psychiatric hospital after a serious suicide attempt. Diana had been a sociable child until she turned 12. She became demanding sullen, rebellious, shifting from a giddy euphoria to tearfulness and depression. She became promiscuous, abused marijuana and hallucinogens and ran away at 15 with a boy. She craved excitement and would get drunk and dance wildly, and left with strange men. When she was 17, she made her first suicide attempt by cutting her wrist severely. She was obsessed with calories and with the need to have her food cut into particular shapes and arranged on her plate in a particular manner. If her parents didn’t do this she would have tantrums. She never had female friends and she has often been “eaten alive” with boredom. She languished at home, grew more depressed and agoraphobic and escalated her valium use. . Understand individuals by breaking down behavior patterns into observable traits, (instead of observable behaviors).. Personalities are determined by a combination of traits.. BASIC ASSUMPTIONS:. . Chapter 15. Fun Personality Tests - . http. ://www.outofservice.com. /. Personality. An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting (. unique & consistent. ).. Each dwarf has a . Traits – the terms we use to describe yourself and others.. #1 - Social Cognitive Theory. Interaction of three factors. Cognitive-personal factors. • cognitive factors. • Include our beliefs, expectations, values, intentions, and. Hans Eysenck believed that we can describe people’s personalities by classifying them along two scales: . Introversion-extraversion scale. Stable-unstable . scale. The Big Five. Many contemporary trait theorists believe personality can be described using 5 traits:. PERSONALITY. What is Personality. ?. People . differ from. each . other in. meaningful . ways. People . seem to show. some . consistency in. behavior. Personality is defined as . distinctive and . inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. . usually without depression or delusions.. Robert Lee Yates: . Spokane Skid Row Killer. Personality Disorders. Broken down into Clusters:. DSM-IV lists 10 separate personality disorders, with an average prevalence of 1-2%. Three clusters: anxious-fearful, odd-eccentric, and dramatic-impulsive. Concern:. . Categorical vs. Dimensional (DSM-V)?.