Personality Disorders

Question 1

PD Criteria

Answer 1

Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior deviating markedly from expectations of one’s culture

2 or more areas - cognition, affectivity, interpesonal functioning, impulse control

CSI

Traced to early adolsecne or early adulthood

Question 2

PD Key features

Answer 2

External locus of control - see events happening to them and have little control

Ego syntonic - all right with how they are and everyone else in the world are the people with problems

Very little insight into issues and how they affect others

Question 3

Paranoid PD, sx, demo

Answer 3

Cluster A
More in men

Distrust and suspicuousness of others - could perceive attacks on character, reluctant to cofnife, etc.

Question 4

Schizoid PD

Answer 4

Cluster A

More in men (slightly)

Pattern of detachment from social relationships and restricted expression of emotions - lacks close friends, solitary activity

Question 5

Schizotypal PD

Answer 5

Cluster A
Increase in prevalence in relatives of individuals with schizoprhenia

Social/interpersonal decificts with actue discomfort for close relationships with cog distortions and odd behaviors

More uncomfortable with close relationships vs. no interest in schizoid

Question 6

Antisocial PD

Answer 6

Cluster B
More in males

Disregard for and violation of rights of others since the age of 15…also with impulsivitiy and lack of remores

Must be 18 with evidence of CD before 15

Question 7

Borderline PD

Answer 7

Cluster B
Most female

Unstable interpersonla relationships, slef-image and affects and impulsivity

Try to avoid abandonment, identity disturbance, impulsivity

Question 8

Histrionic PD

Answer 8

Cluster B

More in females

Pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking

Uncomfrtable when not center of attnetion, etc.

Question 9

Narcissistic PD

Answer 9

More male

Pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy

Question 10

Avoidant PD

Answer 10

Cluster C

Equal

Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadeqacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

Question 11

Dependent PD

Answer 11

Cluster C
More in females

Pervasive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive behavior and fear of separation

Question 12

OCPD

Answer 12

Cluster C
More in Men

Preoccupation with orderlines, perfectionism, and interpersonal control at expence of flexibility and efficiency

Question 13

Cluster A

Answer 13

Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal

Question 14

Cluster B

Answer 14

Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic

Question 15

CLuster C

Answer 15

Avoidant, dependent, OCPD