DSM-5: What's the different Part III + Personality Disorder

Question 1

• Non-delusional paranoia that other people will exploit, harm, or deceive them even when there is no evidence.
• Reluctant share personal information, read hidden meanings of benign remarks
• Hold grudges

Answer 1

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Question 2

• Pervasive lack of interest in social relationship. They prefer spending time by themselves. “Loners”

Answer 2

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Question 3

• Odd beliefs/magical thinking

- Has a little suspicoiusness/paranoia but it hasn’t crossed over to psychotic episodes.

Answer 3

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Question 4

Antisocial PD essential feature

Answer 4

• Pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others.

Question 5

What is the essential feature of Borderline PD?

Answer 5

• instability of interpersonal relationships
• frantic effort to avoid abandonment
• recurrent suicidal gesture

Question 6

Histrionic PD essential feature

Answer 6

Pervasive and excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior.

• need to be the center of attention
• sexually provocative appearance

Question 7

Narcissistic PD essential feature

Answer 7

• Pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy
• Sense of entitlement

Question 8

Avoidant PD essential feature

Answer 8

Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.

Question 9

Dependent PD essential feature

Answer 9

Pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of.

Question 10

The difference in primary focus of concern in Avoidant PD and Dependent PD

Answer 10

Avoidant PD - primary concern is to avoid humiliation and rejection
Dependent PD - primary concern is to be taken care of.

Question 11

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder essential feature

Answer 11

Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control.

Question 12

What is the distinctive difference between Delusional Disorder and Schizophrenia

Answer 12

Delusional Disorder doesn’t have hallucination, disorganized speech/behavior, and catatonic behavior

Question 13

What is the difference between Schizoid PD and Avoidant PD?

Answer 13

Schizoid PD - Loner; don’t want social relationship

Avoidant PD - Lonely; want to connect with others

Question 14

What is DX requirement for Antisocial PD with regards to Conduct Disorder?

Answer 14

Antisocial PD must be 18 or older, and have to have symptoms of conduct disorder before age 15.

Question 15

Antisocial PD - lack of ?

Narcissistic PD - lack of ?

Answer 15

Antisocial PD - lack of remorse

Narcissistic PD - lack of empathy

Question 16

Client is aware of disorder and doesn’t like the perception of themselves.

Answer 16

Egodystonic

Question 17

Client is not aware of having disorder and doesn’t see it as a problem.

Answer 17

Egosyntonic

Question 18

Emotionally cold

Answer 18

Schizoid PD

Question 19

Believe that relationships are more intimate than they really are

Answer 19

Histrionic PD

Question 20

“The rules don’t apply to me.”

Answer 20

Narcissistic PD

Question 21

Indifferent

Answer 21

Schizoid PD

Question 22

Insist that other do things “their way.”

“If you do everything my way, everything will be fine.”

Answer 22

Obsessive-Compulsive PD

Question 23

An idea of reference

Answer 23

Schizotypal PD

false belief that events or the actions of others (e.g., talking, whispering, smiling) relate particularly to oneself.

Question 24

Impulsive behavior “I don’t care if I get hurt, I’m doing it.”

Answer 24

Antisocial PD