Personality Disorders

Question 1

General personality disorder is:

Answer 1

A pervasive, flexible, and chronic pattern of experience and behavior that significantly deviates from the expectations of the individual’s culture, originates in adolescence or early adulthood, and leads to significant distress or impairment and more one or more important areas of functioning.

Question 2

Cluster A personality disorders suspicion or lack of interest in others:

Answer 2

• Paranoid Personality Disorder - pervasive distress and suspiciousness of others
• Schizoid Personality Disorder - detachment from social relationships, and a restricted range of emotions in interpersonal settings.
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder - deficient, social and interpersonal skills accompanied by acute uneasiness with, and diminished ability to maintain, close relationships

Question 3

Cluster B Personality Disorders - dramatic, overly emotional thinking or unpredictable behavior:

Answer 3

• antisocial personality disorder - disregard for and violation of the rights of others characterized by deceit, manipulation, and exploitation
  
  • Emerges around 15 years old, but not diagnosed until 18
  • A criterion is diagnosis of conduct disorder prior to age 15
• Borderline Personality Disorder - instability in interpersonal relationships, self image, and effects, accompanied by impulsivity and present in a variety of contexts.
  
  • Intensely concerned with abandonment. The perception of impending loss, rejection, separation, abandonment, or the loss of external stability and structure can produce profound alterations and self image, affect, cognition, and behavior.
• Histrionic Personality Disorder- excessive emotionality and attention seeking behavior manifesting in a variety of context (must be at the center of attention)
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder - grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy, manifesting and variety of context
  
  • Exaggerated since of self importance, conceited, boastful demeanor, while overestimating their abilities and accomplishments

Question 4

Cluster C Personality Disorders (anxious thinking or behavior):

Answer 4

• avoidant personality disorder - in ordinate, preoccupation, with being disapprove of, socially rejected, or criticized.
  
  • Chronic feelings of inadequacy and is hypersensitive to the possible negative evaluations of others
• Dependent personality disorder - in ordinate and chronic need to be taken care of, resulting in submissive, clinging behavior, and fear of separation, abandonment, or rejection
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder - preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control manifesting and a variety of context

Question 5

Screens for personality disorders include:

Answer 5

• McLean Screening Instrument for BPD (MSI-BPD)
• Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire 4th edition—BPD Scale
• Personality Inventory for DSM 5

Question 6

Therapeutic options for personality disorders include:

Answer 6

• DBT
• Support therapy

Question 7

The following types of prescriptions may help someone manage their personality disorder:

Answer 7

• Antidepressants
• Mood stabilizers
• Antipsychotics
• Anti-anxiety