Personality Disorders

Question 1

Identify general criteria for a personality disorder

Answer 1

• Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior
• Deviates markedly from expectations of one’s culture
• Pervasive and inflexible
• Onset in adolescence or early adulthood
• Stable over time
• Leads to distress or impairment

Question 2

Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from expectations of one’s culture in at least 2 ways (cognitive, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, impulse control)

Answer 2

General Personality Disorder

Question 3

Pervasive pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others without any justification (indicated by 4 symptoms)

Answer 3

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Question 4

Pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotional expression in interpersonal settings (indicated by 4 symptoms)

Answer 4

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Question 5

Pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits and cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior (indicated by 4 symptoms)

Answer 5

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Question 6

Pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others (indicated by 3 symptoms)

Answer 6

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Question 7

Pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects and marked impulsivity (indicated by 5 symptoms)

Answer 7

Borderline Personality Disorder

Question 8

Pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking (indicated by 5 symptoms)

Answer 8

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Question 9

Pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy (indicated by 5 symptoms)

Answer 9

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Question 10

Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation (indicated by 4 symptoms)

Answer 10

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Question 11

Pervasive pattern of excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation (indicated by 5 symptoms)

Answer 11

Dependent Personality Disorder

Question 12

Pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness and efficiency (indicated by 4 symptoms)

Answer 12

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Question 13

Persistent personality disturbance due to the direct physiological effects of a medical condition (e.g. frontal lobe lesion)

Answer 13

Personality Change Due to Another Medical Condition

Question 14

(1) personality pattern meets the general criteria for personality disorder, and traits of several different personality disorders are present, but criteria for any specific personality disorder are not met; or (2) personality pattern meets general criteria but considered to have a personality disorder not included in DSM-5 classification (e.g. passive-aggressive personality disorder)

Answer 14

Other Specified Personality Disorder /

Unspecified Personality Disorder