Personality Disorders

Question 1

What is a personality disorder?

Answer 1

Abnormal and enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior causing distress or impairment.
OR
A constricted set of coping skills

Question 2

What is significant about a personlality change in adulthood?

Answer 2

Look for an illness

Question 3

Discuss Paranoid Personality Disorder

Answer 3

Distrust & suspicion of others; Frequently reads hidden messages in benign remarks.

Question 4

Discuss Schizoid Personality Disorder

Answer 4

Detachment from social relationships and restricted emotional expression.

1. No relationships
2. Little interest in sex
3. Indifferent to praise or criticism

Question 5

Discuss Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Answer 5

Social deficits with acute discomfort and reduced capacity for social relationships

Question 6

Discuss Antisocial Disorder

Answer 6

Disregard for rights of others since 15 w/ conduct disorder symptoms before 15.
No anxiety, doesn’t care about others, lacks remorse

Question 7

Discuss Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 7

Severe mood swings, impulsive, self-harming

Question 8

Discuss Histrionic Personality Disorder

Answer 8

Emotional excess and attention seeking behaviors

Question 9

Discuss Narcissitic Personality Disorder

Answer 9

Grandiosity, need of admiration

Question 10

Discuss Avoidant Personality disorder

Answer 10

Social inhibition, hypersensitivity to criticism.

Avoids social situations

Question 11

Discuss Dependent Personality Disorder

Answer 11

Needs to be cared for. Clingy w/ separation fear

Question 12

Discuss Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Answer 12

Preoccupation w/ control and perfection