Category: Counseling & Therapy

Holland Codes

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Holland Codes and the abbreviation RIASEC refer to John Holland’s six personality types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional. Career Key organizes and scientifically classifies careers, college majors, career clusters, and career pathways by these personality types.

For a description of each type and how you can use personality-career and personality-major match to increase career satisfaction and academic success, visit our article on Holland’s Theory of Career Choice. Our advice on how to choose a career and how to choose a major are based on this popular, respected theory.

DSM-5 Criteria for Paranoid Personality Disorder

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A. A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

  1. Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her.
  2. Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends
    or associates.
  3. Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her.
  4. Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events.
  5. Persistently bears grudges (i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights).
  6. Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack.
  7. Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual
    partner.
    B. Does not occur exclusively during the course of schizophrenia, a bipolar disorder or a depressive disorder with psychotic features, or another psychotic disorder and is not attributable to the physiological effects of another medical condition.

What is the Abandonment Depression?

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The Abandonment Depression is the complex painful childhood experience that is reconstituted in an emotional flashback. It is a return to the sense of overwhelm, hopelessness and helplessness that afflicts the abused and /or emotionally abandoned child. At the core of the abandonment depression is the abandonment melange – the terrible emotional mix of fear and shame that coalesces around the deathlike feelings of depression that afflict an abandoned child. Surrounding the abandonment melange of the flashback are perfectionistic and endangerment cognitions and visualizations of the toxic inner and outer critic (See my articles on the critic), and at the surface is the self-destructive enactments of the fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses (See “A Trauma Typology”).

http://www.pete-walker.com/fAQsComplexPTSD.html#Abandonment