Personality Disorders

Question 1

Cluster A Personalities are described by…

They include…

Answer 1

Odd, Eccentric Behavior

Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal

Question 2

Cluster B Personalities are described by….

They include…

Answer 2

dramatic, erratic, emotional behavior

Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic

Question 3

Cluster C personalities are described by…

They include…

Answer 3

Anxious and Fearful Behavior

Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive Compulsive

Question 4

Personality is…

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is a personality disorder?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Personality disorders can cause impairment in what four areas

Answer 6

Cognition (perception of events, people)
Affectivity
Interpersonal Fxning
Impulse Control

Question 7

Typical course of personality disorders by age

Answer 7

Diagnosis after age 18

Sometimes damage may diminish after age 35

Question 8

Describe Paranoid Personality Disorder

Answer 8

Look for signs of slight
Look to see who will hurt them
See hidden meanings in communication
bear grudges
Use projection

Question 9

Describe Schizoid Personality disorder

Answer 9

Loner
Indifferent to responses from others
Emotionally cool
Use non-goal directed fantasy

Question 10

Describe Schizotypal Personality disorder

Answer 10

Unusual Loner
Social Anxiety
Odd beliefs, speech, perceptions
Emotionally cool
Ideas of Reference
Use magical thinking

Question 11

Distinguish Schizoid and Schizotypal

Answer 11

Schizoid – Indifferent to others, non-goal directed fantasy

Schizotypal – Social Anxiety, Magical thinking

Question 12

Describe antisocial personality disorder

Answer 12

Deficits in conscience
Defies social norms
Irresponsible
Heedless of harm to self or others without remorse
Acting out, Rationalization
Criminal Behavior

Question 13

Describe borderline personality disorder

Answer 13

Fractured identity
Anger
Mood swings
Self Injurious acts
Intense interpersonal relationships 
Use Splitting, projective identification

Question 14

Only way to treat borderline personality disorder

Answer 14

Dialectical behavioral therapy

Question 15

Describe Histrionic personality disorder

Answer 15

Lives to convince (Dramatic, seductive, center of attention
Emotionally changeable and shallow
Preoccupied with appearance
Uses repression and conversion somatic disorder

Question 16

The classic frustrated housewife with a wealthy husband thats jacked up about plastic surgery

Answer 16

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Question 17

Describe Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Answer 17

Self Absorbed, Entitled, Gandiose, Exploitative
Lacks empathy for others
Uses denail, projection

Question 18

Describe avoidant personality disorder.

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Describe Dependent personality Disorder

Answer 19

Needs someone else to nurture or care for
Fearful of independent actions
Absence of anger
Denial, Repression, Identification

Question 20

Describe Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Explain the defense mechanism. Splitting.

Answer 21

Everything in the world is seen as all good or all bad with nothing in between.

Question 22

Explain the defense mechanism. Isolation of affect.

Answer 22

Attempting to avoid a painful thought or feeling by objectifying and emotionally detaching oneself from the feeling.

Question 23

Explain the defense mechanism. Displacement.

Answer 23

Channeling a feeling/thought from its actual sourece to something or someone else.

Question 24

Explain the defense mechanism. Altruism.

Answer 24

Handling your own pain by helping others

Question 25

Explain the defense mechanism. Sublimation

Answer 25

Redirecting unacceptable, instinctual drives into personally and socially acceptable channels.

Question 26

Explain the defense mechanism. Undoing.

Answer 26

Trying to reverse or undo a thought or feeling by performing an action that significes an opposite feeeling than the original.