Personality Disorders

Question 1

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Answer 1

A. Distrust and suspiciousness of others

B. 4 of:
1. Thoughts that others are harming/exploiting/deceiving
2. Preoccupied by doubts of loyalty or trustworthiness of relationships
3. Reluctance to confide
4 interpretation of benign remarks as malignant
5. Bears grudges
6. Perceives attacks on character
7. Suspicious of partners fidelity

Question 2

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Answer 2

A. Detachment from social relationships and restricted affect

B. 4 of:

1. No desire for close relationships
2. Chooses solitary activities
3. Asexual
4. Takes pleasure in few activities
5. Lacks close friends
6. Indifferent to praise/criticism
7. Flattened affect

Question 3

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Answer 3

A. Social deficits with reduced capacity for close relationships and perceptual distortions

B. 5 of:

1. Ideas of reference
2. Magical thinking
3. Unusual perceptual experiences
4. Odd thinking and speech
5. Paranoid ideations
6. Constricted/inappropriate affect
7. Eccentric behaviour
8. Lack of close friends
9. Excessive social anxiety

Question 4

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Answer 4

A. Disregard for the rights of others since age 15

B. >18 years old

C. 3 of:

1. Violates law/unconforming to social norms
2. Deceitful/manipulative
3. Impulsive
4. Disregard for safety
5. Failure to sustain work/financial obligations
6. Lack of remorse

Question 5

Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 5

A. Instability in relationships, self-image, affect, and impulsivity

B. 5 of:

1. Avoids real or imagined abandonment
2. Unstable relationships
3. Unstable self-image
4. Impulsivity
5. Suicidal behaviour
6. Unstable mood/affect
7. Feelings of emptiness
8. Difficulty controlling anger
9. Stress-related paranoia or severe dissociative symptoms

Question 6

Histrionic PD

Answer 6

5 of:

1. Needs to be the centre of attention
2. Sexual
3. Shallow expression of emotions
4. Physical appearance for attention seeking
5. Speech is dramatic
6. Self-dramatization
7. Suggestible
8. Considers relationships to be more intimate than they are

Question 7

Narcissistic PD

Answer 7

5 of:

1. Grandiose sense of self-importance
2. Fantasies of success
3. Believes they are special
4. Requires excessive admiration.
5. Sense of entitlement
6. Interpersonally exploitative
7. Lacks empathy
8. Envious of other or believes others are envious of them
9. Arrogant behaviours/attitudes

Question 8

Avoidant PD

Answer 8

4 of:

1. Avoids activities that involve significant interpersonal contact
2. Unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
3. Preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations
4. Inhibited in new social situations
5. Views self as socially inept
6. Reluctant to engage in new activities

Question 9

Dependent PD

Answer 9

5 of:

1. Difficulty making decisions
2. Needs others to assume responsibility
3. Difficulty expressing disagreement
4. Difficulty initiating projects
5. Excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support
6. Feels helpless when alone
7. Starts another close relationship when a previous one ends
8. Preoccupied with fears of taking care of themselves

Question 10

Obsessive-Compulsive PD

Answer 10

4 of:

1. Focus on details/rules/lists/organization such that the major point of activity is lost
2. Perfectionism interferes with task completion
3. Excessive devotion to work
4. Inflexible morals. Hoarding
5. Reluctance to delegate or work with others
6. Miserly spending
7. Rigidity and stubbornness