Personality Disorders

Question 1

Cluster A

Answer 1

1. Suspicious
2. Paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder
3. eccentricity, distrust, lack of interest in social contact

Question 2

Cluster B

Answer 2

1. emotional and impulsive
2. antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histronic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder
3. intense emotions, lack of empathy, unpredictable behaviors

Question 3

Cluster C

Answer 3

1. anxious
2. avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive persionality disorder
3. low social drive, sensitvity to criticism

Question 4

Paranoid personality disorder

Answer 4

1. Long-standing suspiciousness and mistrust of people
2. Appears hostile, irritable, and angry

Question 5

Schizoid personality disorder

Answer 5

1. Patterns of social withdrawal
2. Discomfort with human interaction, introversion, bland
3. seen by others as eccentric, isolated, or lonely

avoidant

Question 6

Schizotypal personality disorder

Answer 6

1. may appear odd or strange in thinking/behavior
2. experience distorted thoughts or perceptions; magical thinking, peculiar ideas, ideas of reference illusions, and derealization
3. feel very anxious and paranoid in social situations, finding it hard to relate to others.

no psyhosis

Question 7

Antisocial personality disorder

Answer 7

1. continual antisocial or criminal acts, but it is not synonymouse with criminality
2. inability to conform to social norms
3. no regard for the safety or feelings of others; lack remorse
4. have had a diagnosis of** conduct disorder** before the age of 15; did not respond to treatment/untreated can be a** precursor** to developing this disorder

Question 8

Borderline personality disorder

Answer 8

1. experience extraordinarily unstable affect, mood, behavior, relationships, and self-image
2. fear of real or imagined abandonment leads to frantic efforts to avoid it
3. a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships with alternating extremes of idealization and devaluation (splitting)
4. recurrent self-destructive or self-mutilating behavior may be treatened or carried out
5. chronic feelings of emptiness
6. majority have a history of trauma

Question 9

Histrionic personality disorder

Answer 9

1. colorful, dramatic, extroverted behavoir in excitable, emotional persons
2. inability to maintain deep, long-lasting attachments with accompanying floamboyant presentation is often characteristic

Question 10

Narcissistic personality disorder

Answer 10

1. heightened sense of self-importance and a grandiose feeling that they are special in some way

Question 11

Avoidant personality disorder

Answer 11

1. extreme sensitivity to rejection, which may lead to a socially withdrawn life
2. not asocial; shows a great desire for companionship, but consider themselves inept or unworthy
3. need unusually strong and repeated guarantees of uncritical acceptance
4. inferiority complex

Question 12

Dependent personality disorder

Answer 12

1. subordinate their own needs to those of others and need others to assume responsibilty for major areas in their lives
2. lack self-confidence
3. experience discomfort when alone for more than a brief period

Question 13

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Answer 13

1. emotional constriction, orderliness, perseverance, stubbornness, and indecisiveness
2. perfectionist and inflexibility
3. do not confuse with OCD

Question 14

Treatment for personality disorders

Answer 14

1. psychotherapy and meds
2. DBT for borderline personality disorder
3. Monitoring, supervision, and hospitalization

OT:
1.. helps identify previous diagnostic-specif issues may increase commitment to treatment and pursuit of behavioral change
2.Cog-behavoiral approaches (including DBT) to increase functional/coping skills and dec syptomatic behaviors