09c_Cluster C Personality Disorders

Question 1

Avoidant Personality Disorder:

Essential Features

Answer 1

Social inhibition

Feelings of inadequacy

Hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

Question 2

Avoidant Personality Disorder:

Diagnostic Criteria

Answer 2

4+ characteristic symptoms

Question 3

Avoidant Personality Disorder:

Characteristic Symptoms

Answer 3

Avoids work activities involving interpersonal contact due to a fear of criticism, rejection, or disapproval

Unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked

Exhibits restraint in intimate relationships to to fear of being ridiculed

Preoccupied with concerns about being criticized or rejected

Inhibited in new relationships due to feelings of inadequacy

Views self as socially inept, inferior, or unappealing to others

Reluctant to engage in activities because they may be embarrassing

Question 4

Dependent Personality Disorder:

Essential Features

Answer 4

Pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of

Submissive, clinging behavior

Fear of separation

Question 5

Dependent Personality Disorder:

Diagnostic Criteria

Answer 5

5+ characteristic symptoms

Question 6

Dependent Personality Disorder:

Characteristic Symptoms

Answer 6

Difficulty making decisions without advice/reassurance

Needs others to assume responsibility for most aspects of life

Fears disagreeing with others because it might lead to a loss of support

Difficulty initiating projects

Goes to great lengths to gain nurturance and support from others

Feels helpless or uncomfortable when alone

Urgently seeks another relationship for support when a close relationship ends

Unrealistic preoccupation with fears of being left to care for themselves

Question 7

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder:

Essential Features

Answer 7

Persistent preoccupation with orderliness

Perfectionism

Mental and interpersonal control

Question 8

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder:

Diagnostic criteria

Answer 8

4+ characteristic symptoms

Question 9

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder:

Characteristic Symptoms

Answer 9

Preoccupation with details, rules, etc. to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost

Perfectionism that interferes with task completion

Excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships

Overconscientious and inflexible about morality, ethics, and values

Unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects

Reluctant to delegate work to others unless they are willing to do it exactly their way

Miserly spending style toward self and others

Rigidity and stubbornness

*DOES NOT involve true obsessions and compulsions