Personality Disorders

Question 1

What is personality?

Answer 1

Refers to the set emotional and behavioral traits. A person exhibits as the perceive, relate to, and think about their environment and themselves.

Question 2

Personalities give rise to…

Answer 2

Enduring and predictable patterns of behavior and emotion that are stable across numerous social and personal contacts

Question 3

Personality disorder

Answer 3

Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the expectations of the individuals culture, is pervasive, and inflexible

Question 4

Personality disorder is diagnosed one personality traits are…

Answer 4

So in flexible in maladaptive across a wide range of situation and cause significant distress an impairment

Question 5

Etiology of personality disorders

Answer 5

biological, genetic, and psychological factors

Question 6

Treatment of personality disorders

Answer 6

Difficult to treat- patients lack insight to the condition, and are resistant to the idea that they need help

Psychotherapy can be helpful, but also difficult

Pharmacologic therapy does not work

Question 7

Paranoid, personality disorder

Answer 7

Chronic pervasive distrust and suspicion

Interpret other peoples motives as malevolent

Question 8

A 30 year old man says his wife has been cheating on him because he does not have a good enough job to provide for her needs. He also claims that on his previous job, his boss laid them off, because he did a better job than his boss. He has initiated several lawsuits. He refuses couples therapy because he believes that the therapist will side with his wife. He believes his neighbors of critical of him.

What does this man have?

Answer 8

Paranoid, personality disorder

Question 9

Schizoid personality disorder

Answer 9

Social withdrawal, solitude, and isolation

Perceived as eccentric and reclusive

Quiet and restricted in their emotions

Question 10

A 45-year-old scientist worked in the lab most of the day and has no friends, according to his coworkers. He has not been able to keep jobs because of his inability to collaborate with others. He expresses no desire to make friends and he’s content with his single life. He has no evidence of thought disorder. What does he have?

Answer 10

Schizoid personality disorder

Question 11

Schizotypal personality disorder

Answer 11

Eccentric behavior and peculiar thought patterns
Noted to have odd speech, behavior, and beliefs

First-degree relatives with schizophrenia

Question 12

A 35-year-old man addresses in a wizard costume every weekend as part of a live action role-playing community. He spent a great deal of time on computers set up in his basement, trying to detect the presence of extra terrestrial communication from outer space. He has no auditory or visual hallucinations.

What does this man suffer from?

Answer 12

Schizotypal personality disorder

Question 13

Borderline personality disorder

Answer 13

Emotional instability, intense, interpersonal relationships, and impulsive behavior’s

Question 14

What does a relationship look like for a person with borderline personality disorder?

Answer 14

Relationships begin with intense attachment and end abruptly after minor conflict

Question 15

Treatment for borderline personality disorder

Answer 15

DBT
Antidepressants
Anxiolytics

Question 16

A 23 year old medical student attempts to cut her wrists because things have not worked out with the man she has been dating over the past three weeks. She says that all guys are jerks and not worth your time. She says that she often feels that she’s completely alone in the world.

What does this young lady suffer from?

Answer 16

Borderline personality disorder

Question 17

Histrionic personality disorder

Answer 17

Flamboyant, emotional, and inappropriate attention, seeking behavior

Sexually provocative an inappropriate

Question 18

People with histrionic personality disorder come across as…

Answer 18

Dramatic and extroverted, but are unable to form lasting relationships

Question 19

833 year old scantily clad woman comes to your office, complaining that she has a fever, and feels as though she is burning in hell. She’s vividly describes to you how this favors affecting her work and her relationships.

What does she have?

Answer 19

Histrionic personality disorder

Question 20

Antisocial, personality disorder

Answer 20

Disregard for rules laws and social norms

Lack remorse or empathy I will exploit others to meet their own needs

Question 21

What type of personality disorder is common criminals but not all criminals meet the criteria for it?

Answer 21

Antisocial personality disorder

Question 22

A 30 year old unemployed man is accused of killing three senior citizens after having them. He is unrepentant and surprisingly charming in the police interview. As a youth, he was arrested several times for stealing cars and assaulting other teenagers.
What personality disorder do you suspect this man has?

Answer 22

Antisocial personality disorder

Question 23

Narcissistic personality disorder

Answer 23

Grandiosity, unexaggerated, self importance

Consider themselves to be “special”

Question 24

Treatment for antisocial personality disorder

Answer 24

Difficult
Psychotherapy is ineffective due to lack of insight

Question 25

Treatment for narcissistic personality disorder

Answer 25

Psychotherapy

Question 26

A 48 year old CEO is rushed to the ED after an automobile accident. He refuses to allow even an experience resident operate on him and request the chief of trauma surgery because he is “vital to his company” while in the ED, he makes frequent business calls explaining to the staff that he needs to “stay on top of his game”

What is this patient suffer from?

Answer 26

Narcissistic personality disorder

Question 27

Dependent personality disorder

Answer 27

Poor self-confidence, marked by indecision and fear of loneliness

Question 28

Treatment for dependent personality disorder

Answer 28

Psychotheray
Social skills training
Assertiveness training

Question 29

48-year-old male who lives with his parents has trouble deciding how and where to get his car fixed he called his father at work several times a day to ask for guidance. He has been unemployed for the past three years.

What does this mean likely suffer from?

Answer 29

Dependent personality disorder

Question 30

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Answer 30

Orderliness, perfectionism and flexibility, and need to control other people and events

Distinct from OCD

Question 31

Treatment for obsessive - compulsive personality disorder

Answer 31

CBT
SSRIs for anxiety

Question 32

848 year old secretary has been fired because of her inability to work as part of a team. She is critical an inflexible perfectionist, and can become so preoccupied with unimportant details that she’s unable to complete simple tasks in a timely fashion. What is this woman likely suffer from?

Answer 32

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Question 33

Avoidant personality disorder

Answer 33

Sense of inadequacy, which, when combined with an overwhelming fear of rejection, leads to social inhibition

Desire for companionship, but also hypersensitive and shy

Question 34

Treatment for avoidant personality disorder

Answer 34

Psychotherapy
Antidepressants for depression and anxiety

Question 35

838 year old postal worker rarely goes out with his coworkers. Even when she is invited to join them, she makes excuses because she secretly afraid that they do not like her. She would actually like to go out and meet new people, but feels that she is too shy and ends up, staying home alone

What does this woman likely suffer from?

Answer 35

Avoidant, personality disorder

Question 36

The current an official diagnostic classification for personality disorders are derived from what type of model?

Answer 36

Categorical model
You either have the disorder or you do not

Question 37

What is the dimensional model?

Answer 37

Allows for varying degrees of impairment or severity

Question 38

It is best to consider personality as what?

Answer 38

A continuum