Personality Disorders

Question 1

Personality Disorders are chronic and originate in _ and continue throughout adulthood.

Answer 1

Childhood

Question 2

A persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behavior that results in enduring emotional distress for the person affected and/or for others and may cause difficulties with work and relationships.

Answer 2

Personality Disorder

Question 3

Who must decide whether the personality disorder is causing significant functional impairment?

Answer 3

Someone other than the person

Question 4

People with this disorder are excessively mistrustful and suspicious, without any justification. They assume that other people are out to harm or trick them. A pervasive, unjustified distrust. They may be argumentative, complain or be quiet.

Answer 4

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Question 5

Paranoid people are sensitive to criticism and have an excessive need for _.

Answer 5

Autonomy

Question 6

Individuals with this disorder seem neither to desire nor to enjoy closeness with others. They show a pattern of detachment from social relationships and a limited range of emotions in interpersonal situations. They do not seem affected by praise or criticism.

Answer 6

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Question 7

The term schizoid, has been used by _ to describe people who have a tendency to turn inward and away from the outside world.

Answer 7

Bleuler

Question 8

Homelessness appears to be prevalent among people with this disorder as a result of their lack of close friendships and lack of dissatisfaction about not having a sexual relationship with another person.

Answer 8

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Question 9

The social deficiencies of people with schizoid are similar to those with _, although they are more extreme. They both also have ideas of reference mistaken beliefs that meaningless event relate just to them, and experience social isolation, poor rapport and constricted affect.

Answer 9

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Question 10

The only disorder in cluster A that does not seem to have the unusual thought processes that characterize other disorders.

Answer 10

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Question 11

People with this disorder are typically socially isolated, have psychotic symptoms of behaving in ways that would seem unusual to many of us, tend to be suspicious and to have odd beliefs or magical thinking. They also have ideas of reference and report unusual perceptual experiences, and express little emotions.

Answer 11

Schizotypal Personality Disorders

Question 12

This disorder is considered to be on the same spectrum with schizophrenia but without some of the more debilitating symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions.

Answer 12

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Question 13

People with this disorder have a history of violating rights of others and failing to comply with social norms. They perform actions most of us would find unacceptable such as stealing from friends and family and completely lack in conscience and empathy.

Answer 13

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Question 14

Common disorder that people with antisocial personality disorder might have.

Answer 14

Substance Abuse

Question 15

Philippe Pinel identified what he called _ to describe people with unusual emotional responses and impulsive rates but not deficits in reasoning ability.

Answer 15

Manie sans delire (mania without delirium)

Question 16

What are other labels for antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 16

Moral insanity, egopathy, sociopathy, and psychopathy.

Question 17

A diagnosis for children who engage in behaviors that violate society’s norms.

Answer 17

Conduct Disorder

Question 18

3 Subtypes of Conduct Disorder:

Answer 18

Childhood onset type
Adolescent onset type
With a callous-unemotional presentation

Question 19

The onset of at least one criterion characteristic of conduct disorder prior to age 10 years.

Answer 19

Childhood onset type

Question 20

The absence of any criteria characteristic of conduct disorder prior to age 10 years.

Answer 20

Adolescent-onset type

Question 21

Additional subtype of conduct disorder, indicating that the young person presents in a way that suggests personality characteristics similar to an adult with psychopathy.

Answer 21

With a callous-unemotional presentation

Question 22

Many children with conduct disorder most often diagnosed in _ , become juvenile offenders and tend to become involved with _.

Answer 22

Boys
Drugs

Question 23

The likelihood of an adult having antisocial personality disorder increases if as a child, he or she has a conduct disorder and _ disorder.

Answer 23

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Question 24

Their moods and relationships are unstable and usually have a poor self image. These people often feel empty and are at greater risk of dying by their own hands. They fear abandonment but lack control over their emotions.

Answer 24

Borderline Personality Disorder

Question 25

Some core features of borderline personality disorder which is also one of the best predictors of suicide.

Answer 25

Dysfunction in the area of emotion
Character of instability

Question 26

Instability of people with borderline personality disorder extends to _, which can be seen in their drug abuse and self mutilation.

Answer 26

Impulsivity

Question 27

3 disorders that are common among people with borderline personality disorder.

Answer 27

Mood Disorder
Eating Disorder (particularly bulimia)
Substance use Disorder

Question 28

People with borderline personality disorder tend to improve during their _ and _ although they may continue to have difficulties into old age.

Answer 28

30’s and 40’s

Question 29

Individuals with this disorder tend to be overly dramatic, theatrical in manner and often seen as acting. They are included to express their emotion in an exaggerated fashion, tend to be vain, self-centered and uncomfortable when they are not in the limelight. They are often seductive in appearance and behavior and typically concerned about their looks.

Answer 29

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Question 30

People with Histrionic Personality seek _ and _ constantly and may become upset or angry when others do not do it.

Answer 30

Reassurance
Approval

Question 31

Histrionic people tend to be impulsive and have a great difficulty delaying _.

Answer 31

Gratification

Question 32

Speech of histrionic people is often _, _ , and exaggerated.

Answer 32

Vague
Lacking in detail

Question 33

In Greek mythology, he was a youth who spurned the love of Echo, so enamored was he of his own beauty, admiring his own image reflected in a pool of water.

Answer 33

Narcissus

Question 34

Psychoanalysts including Freud used the term _ to describe people who show an exaggerated sense of self importance and are preoccupied with receiving attention.

Answer 34

Narcissistic

Question 35

People with this disorder have an unreasonable sense of self importance and preoccupied with themselves, lacking sensitivity and compassion for other people. They are not comfortable unless someone is admiring them. They also tend to use or exploit others for their own interests and show little empathy. They are often extremely envious, arrogant and depressed.

Answer 35

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Question 36

The exaggerated feelings and fantasies of greatness that create a number of negative attributes is called _.

Answer 36

Grandiosity

Question 37

People with this disorder are extremely sensitive to the opinions of others and although they desire social relationships, their anxiety leads them to avoid such associations. They have extremely low self esteem coupled with fear of rejection, dependent on those they feel comfortable with and feel chronically rejected and pessimistic about their future.

Answer 37

Avoidant Personality Disorders

Question 38

Individuals with this disorder rely on others to make ordinary and important decisions, which results in an unreasonable fear of abandonment. They cling to relationships in desire to obtain and maintain supportive and nurturant relationships which may lead them to be submissive, timid and passive.

Answer 38

Dependent Personality Disorder

Question 39

Which Personality Disorders are similar with feelings of inadequacy, sensitivity to criticism and need for reassurance?

Answer 39

Dependent and Avoidant Personality Disorders

Question 40

They are characterized by a fixation on things being done the right way. They tend to have poorer interpersonal relationships due to their general rigidity, and tend to have obsessive thoughts and compulsions.

Answer 40

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders

Question 41

It is common to find Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder among _, whose quest for perfectionism can be quite debilitating.

Answer 41

Gifted children

Question 42

Crimes that fit obsessive compulsive personality disorder.

Answer 42

Serial killers
Sex offenders, particularly pedophiles.