1 / 6

Understanding Anxious and Fearful Personality Disorders

Learn about Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders, their characteristics, and treatment approaches. Explore how these disorders impact social and occupational functioning. Discover film and TV representations of these disorders.

pravat
Download Presentation

Understanding Anxious and Fearful Personality Disorders

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Cluster C Anxious or Fearful Behaviors Helen, Katie, Richard, Paige, Maddie

  2. Avoidant • Long standing feelings of inadequacy, and sensitive to the thoughts of others. • Avoids social encounters • Major problems with social and occupational functioning • Shy, timid, lonely, and isolated

  3. Dependent • People depend too much on others to achieve their emotional and physical needs • Fear of being abandoned or separated from • Long term, chronic • Treatment- create treatment goals to become more independent.

  4. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder • Anxiety disorder • Obsessions- Thoughts that are considered not normal that cause fear and uneasiness • Compulsions- Actions that counter the obsessions and keep the person from actively worrying

  5. Why? • These three personality disorders are grouped together because the people with one of these disorders cannot have a normal relationship with others.

  6. Film, TV, Pop Culture AVOIDANT • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind • Dexter DEPENDENT • Blue Velvet • What About Bob? Bob Gimme, Gimme, Gimme! OCPD • Silver Linings Playbook, Patrick Stupid F!#@ing Book! • As Good As It Gets, Melvin Melvin's behaviors

More Related