Personality Disorders Mnemonic

Obsessive compulsive inflexible but inefficient obsessive compulsive personality disorder.

Personality disorders mnemonic. Schizoid schizoids avoid schizotypal typal are magical paranoid. Uncontrolled wildness uncontrolled wildness cluster c disorder c oward avoidant type c ompulsive obsessive compulsive type or c lingy dependent type. The mnemonics are acronyms and each letter is associated with a specific criterion. The criteria of generalised anxiety disorder gad can be remembered by the mnemonic watcher modified by the author from the original mnemonic watchers 68 w orry and a nxiety t ime for at least 6 months.

Here s a mnemonic for the personality disorders. S pousal infidelity suspected. Mnemonic for personality disorders. Spas ban his acd.

Weird wacky and worried. Learn personality disorder mnemonics with free interactive flashcards. Remember the three w s. For example the acronym for the diagnostic criteria for paranoid personality disorder is suspect and for histrionic personality disorder it is praise me.

Cluster b disorder beast. Ego syntonic happy with how. Choose from 500 different sets of personality disorder mnemonics flashcards on quizlet. That ll help you keep the personality disorders straight on your shelf exam.

Mnemonics forselect eddsm ili r and dsm iv dison denshave previously been described 1 2 this paper presents acronyms developed tohelp clinicians learn and recollect criteria for dsm iv personality disorders theacronyms reflect afacet ofthein respective dis orders. Avoidant seeks social relationship but avoids social situation. Cluster a is weird cluster b is wacky and cluster c is worried. U nforgiving bears grudges s uspicious.

Each acronym reflects a facet of the related disorder. The mnemonics have been used to teach students and residents the conceptual nature of dsm iv disorders and to help them remember the criteria.