Personality Disorders

Question 1

Common Features of Personality Disorders

Answer 1

1. Impaired Metacognition: ability to consider and identify one’s own state of mind and that of others, reflect upon these states, deliberate upon their accuracy, and then apply this knowledge to problem solving
2. Maladaptive Emotional Response
3. Impaired Self Identity
4. Impulsivity and Destructive Functioning

Question 2

Severity of Personality Disorders

Answer 2

1. Self Control
2. Identity Integration
3. Relational Capacities
4. Responsibilities
5. Social Concordance

Question 3

Cluster A Disorders

Answer 3

Social Aversion

1. Paranoid PD
2. Schizoid PD
3. Schizotypal PD

Question 4

Paranoid Personality Disorder:

Answer 4

stable pattern of nonpsychotic paranoid behaviour, mistrustful, suspicious, guarded

cluster A

Question 5

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Answer 5

Interpersonally unengaged, introverted, incapable of forming social relationships

cluster A

Question 6

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Answer 6

characterized by a pattern of interpersonal deficits; unable to form relationships easily due to eccentric behaviour and odd beliefs

cluster A

Question 7

Cluster B Disorders

Answer 7

Dysregulation in Emotion and Behavior

Antisocial PD
Borderline PD
Histrionic PD
Narcisstic PD

Question 8

Antisocial Personality Disorder:

Answer 8

pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others, easily irritated, lacks empathy “psychopath”

cluster b

Question 9

Borderline Personality Disorder:

Answer 9

affective instability, identify diffusion, unstable relationships/attachment issues, dichotomous thinking, dissociation, parasuicidal behaviour

cluster b

Question 10

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Answer 10

attention seeking, depressed when not centre of attention

cluster b

Question 11

Narcissistic Personality Disorder:

Answer 11

Grandiose degree of self-love and importance; strong sense of entitlement

cluster b

Question 12

Cluster C disorders

Answer 12

Fearfulness

Avoidant PD
Dependent PD
Obsessive Compulsive PD

Question 13

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Answer 13

a desire for affiliation that is affected by a sense of personal inadequacy and intense fear of social rejection

withdraw until they are sure they will be accepted without criticism

Question 14

Dependent Personality Disorder:

Answer 14

desperate to keep others close and over-willing to do anything to maintain closeness, including being submissive and without regard for self

seek out and try to maintain relationships with others.

Question 15

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Answer 15

preoccupied with orderliness, rules, perfectionism, control. Rigid and stubborn

Question 16

Parasuicidal Behaviour:

Answer 16

deliberate acts of self-injury; component of BPD

Question 17

Dissociation:

Answer 17

A disruption in the normally occurring linkages among subjective awareness, feelings, thoughts, behaviours, and memories

Question 18

Dichotomous Thinking:

Answer 18

Tendency to view things as absolute, with no perception of compromise

Question 19

Oppositional Defiant Disorder:

Answer 19

uncooperative, defiant and hostile towards peers, parents and authority figures

Question 20

Intermittent Explosive Disorder:

Answer 20

Outbursts of verbal and physical aggressiveness, out of proportion to provocation that results in an assault of persons/animal or in destruction of property

Question 21

Conduct Disorder:

Answer 21

diagnosed when children show an ongoing pattern of aggression towards others, and serious violation of rules and social norms at home, in school and with peers

Question 22

Kleptomania:

Answer 22

unnecessary stealing

Question 23

Pyromania:

Answer 23

uncontrollable impulse to set fires