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1. Want to be around others but fear / feel anxious about being negatively evaluated
2. Anxiety is out of proportion to the actual threat
3. Engage in protective behaviours, eg. avoid social situations or engage in safety behaviours, e.g. stay quiet
4. Fear humiliation and rejection

Key coaching implications:
1. Non-judgemental space; trust is key
2. Notice cultural context
3. Confirm expectations / clear contracting
4. Distinguish from shyness (temperament) or transient social anxiety

Similarities with the following Personality Styles/Disorders:
Some say social anxiety disorder is a milder version of avoidant personality disorder
It can present in or alongside other conditions, e.g. schizophrenia, depression, body dysmorphic disorder, OCD and autism

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1. Emotional detachment + Limited, if any close relationships
2. Monotonous Speech + Limited Facial Expressions
3. Appear indifferent to praise or criticism
4. Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities.

Key coaching implications:
1. Be Objective
2. Avoid Judgment
3. Get Educated

Similarities with the following Personality Styles/Disorders:

Depressive PD
Dependent PD

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1. Avoidance of social situations/negative thoughts, emotions/negative situations (eg conflict, presentations - anything where could be judged)
2. Fear of rejection and embarrassment
3. Driven by feelings of inadequacy
4. Might see perfectionism/people pleasing to maintain close relationships

Key coaching implications:
1. Take time to build trust and rapport
2. CBT to uncover ANTs/core beliefs and impact of avoidance and challenge them
3. Use ACT to accept emotions and commit to act in accordance with values to increase self worth

Similarities with the following Personality Styles/Disorders:
- schizod: don’t want close relationship, AvPD do but fear of rejection prevents
- social anxiety: avoidance focused on social, no core belief of inadequacy, know anxiety is irrational
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1. Emotionally unstable (happy, sad, angry quick succession)
2. Charming, Dramatic, Expressive
3. Attention seeking
4. Flirty

Key coaching implications:
1. Clear boundaries with coaching relationship
2. Help them to moderate emotional expression
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Similarities with the following Personality Styles/Disorders:  Narcissistic PD - require admiration for inflated sense of self whereas Histrionic PD require any attention to avoid feelings of discomfort. Histrionic PD less likely to be dismissive of others as they have more empathy (generally) than those with NPD.

Dependent PD - both have high levels of dependency. DPD generally has more awareness/insight that underlying dependency affects beh whilst HPD has little insight about this.

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1. Lack of empathy - callous towards others' pain and suffering
2. Need for power - calculating, highly competitive and poor losers
3. Lacks remorse - no regard for the truth, repeatedly lie, use aliases or con others for personal gain/pleasure. Guilt is seldom experienced
4. Inflated self-appraisal - believe they are always right which absolves them from questioning their actions.

Key coaching implications:
1. Likely to mistrust others therefore unlikely to seek advice or guidance of others and dismiss unsolicited counsel from others as irrelevant to them.
2. Lack motivation to change as they don't think there's anything wrong with the way they behave - need to gain their trust, agree with their perceived commitment, and emphasise personal gain/power, challenge, risk and winning.
3. Counter-transference should be monitored to ensure coach maintains perspective.
4, No empirically-supported treatments treatments so essential to identify and respond to co-existing issues, e.g. addiction, ADHD, depression.

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Narcissistic personality disorder - but pure narcissist is unlikely to be aggressive, impulsive, or deceitful.

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1. easily slighted and quick to react with anger or to counterattack
2. reluctant to confide in others b/c of unwarranted fear that the info will be used against them.
3. read hidden meanings or threats into benign remarks or events
4. unforgiving of insults or slights

Key coaching implications:
1. May not believe they need coaching – are they obliged to attend?

2. May focus on the problems stages of coaching – instead of solution focussed approaches.

3.  May be distrustful of the coach's intentions. Suspicious of compliments issued by the coach.

4. May read too much into challenging questions asked by the coach

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Cluster A personality disorder - described as a paranoid spectrum disorder ranging from paranoid personality disorder through to delusional disorder to paranoid schizoprenia.

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2022.09.12 - PSYC4724 - NPD Presentation (Final - no notes) - Josh Cass, Anne Lawson, Selina Li