Personality Disorders

Question 1

Dissociation

Answer 1

splitting off clusters of mental contents from conscious awareness

Question 2

Intellectualization

Answer 2

engagement in abstract thinking to ward off conflict or disturbing feelings

Question 3

Projection

Answer 3

what is emotionally unacceptable in the self is unconsciously rejected and attributed to others

Question 4

Rationalization

Answer 4

individual attempts to make unacceptable feeling acceptable by justification

Question 5

Reaction formation

Answer 5

person adopts ideas and behaviors that are the opposite of impulses harbored consciously or unconsciously (ie, excessive moral zeal may be a reaction to strong but repressed asocial impulses

Question 6

Repression

Answer 6

banishment of unacceptable fantasies or ideas from the conscious mind

Question 7

Sublimation

Answer 7

unacceptable conscious drives are redirected into personally and socially acceptable channels

Question 8

Substitution

Answer 8

an unacceptable emotion is replaced by one that is more acceptable

Question 9

Cluster A

Answer 9

(odd, eccentric behavior)

Paranoid

Schizoid

Schizotypal

Question 10

Cluster B

Answer 10

(dramatic, erratic emotional behavior)

Antisocial

Borderline

Histrionic

Narcissistic

Question 11

Cluster C

Answer 11

(anxious and fearful behavior)

Avoidant

Dependent

Obsessive-Compulsive

Question 12

Personality

Answer 12

an enduring pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is uniquely recognizable in each individual

Question 13

Personality Disorder

Answer 13

The fixed use of a limited set of coping styles in all areas of living regardless of adaptability, the end result of which is impaired functioning

Question 14

DSM5 Impairment in… (4)

Answer 14

• -Cognition (perception of events, people and others)
• -Affectivity
• -Interpersonal Functioning
• -Impulse Control

Question 15

Features (5)

Answer 15

• -Fixed set of responses
• -Responses used at home, work, and play
• -Used when not effective at meeting goals -Egosyntonic
• -Lifelong
• -Generally diagnosed in adults

Question 16

Diagnosed after age

Answer 16

18

Question 17

Damage may diminish after age…

Answer 17

35

Question 18

Paranoid Personality Disorder features

Answer 18

Scan the environment for signs of slight

• • look to see who will hurt them
• • see hidden meanings
• • bear grudges

Use projection

Question 19

Schizoid Personality Disorder features (3)

Answer 19

Loner - indifferent to responses from others

Emotionally cool

Use non-goal-directed fantasy

Question 20

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Answer 20

Unusual and loner

• —Social anxiety
• —Odd beliefs, speech, perceptions
• —Emotionally cool
• —Ideas of reference (not delusions of reference

Use magical thinking

Question 21

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Answer 21

Deficits in conscience

• —Defies social norms
• —Irresponsible
• —Heedless of harm to self or others and without remorse

Use acting out, rationalization

Question 22

Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 22

• Fractured identity
• Anger
• Intense interpersonal relationships —Mood swings
• Self-injurious acts
• Use splitting, projective identification

Question 23

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Answer 23

• Lives to convince
• Dramatic, seductive, center of attention, preoccupied with appearance, emotionally changeable and “shallow”
• Uses repression -Conversion often accompanies

Question 24

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Answer 24

• Self-absorbed
• Entitled, grandiose, exploitative
• Lacks empathy for others

Use denial, projection

Question 25

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Answer 25

• Sensitive to rejection but interested in interaction
• Sees self as socially inept
• Needs high degrees of reassurance to attempt close relationships, new activities, etc.

Question 26

Dependent Personality Disorder

Answer 26

Needs someone else to nurture or care for

• Fearful of independent actions
• Stays in relationship, quickly finds others
• Absence of anger

Use denial, repression, identification

Question 27

Obsessive/Compulsive Personality Disorder

Answer 27

• Lives for structure and control
  
  • Perfectionistic
  • Emotionally constricted
  • Needs organization, lists, details
• Use isolation, reaction formation and undoing