Personality Disorders

Question 1

Good definition of a personality disorder?

Answer 1

Inflexible, maladaptive and rigid behavior that impairs functioning and person is not aware of the problem

Question 2

What is the diagnostic criteria for personality disorder?

Answer 2

That rigid behavior manifested in 2 or more of the following areas
Cognition
Affect or emotional response
Interpersonal functioning
Impulse control

Question 3

What is a good rule of thumb for when to diagnose personality disorders?

Answer 3

Don’t do it until at least 18 because personality development is not complete

Question 4

What are the three cluster A personality disorders?

What is one adjective to describe the Cluster A group personality disorders?

Answer 4

Paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal

Odd/weird

Question 5

How do we best describe paranoid personality disorder?

Answer 5

Irrational suspicions and mistrust of others. They always think people are exploiting them or deceiving them.

Question 6

How do we best describe schizoid personality disorder?

Answer 6

Lack of interest in in social relationship
Indifferent to others
Lacks close friends

Question 7

How do we best describe schizotypal personality disorder?

Answer 7

Just freaking weird. Odd beliefs, behavior and thinking.

Question 8

How do we best describe cluster B personality disorders?

What are the 4 types of cluster b?

Answer 8

Dramatic, emotional or erratic

Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic

Question 9

How do we best describe antisocial personality disorder? What gender is more commonly affected?

Answer 9

Disregard for the law and others and how their actions affect others.
Men

Question 10

Describe borderline personality disorder and which gender?

Answer 10

They have a huge fear of abandonment and that fear makes them act freaking crazy! Impulsive, anger, self hurt, suicidal,etc.

Women

Question 11

4 things to remember about borderline?

Answer 11

Very manipulative
Immature
Often victims of sexual or emotional abuse
Depression

Question 12

How do we best describe histrionic personality disorder?

Answer 12

Attention seekers

Question 13

How do we best describe narcissistic personality disorder?

Answer 13

Exaggerate their own talents and accomplishments
Feel entitled
No empathy
Arrogant

Question 14

How do we best describe cluster C personality disorders and what are the specific 3?

Answer 14

Anxious or fearful
Avoidant
Dependent
OCPD

Question 15

How do we best describe avoidant personality disorder and how is it different from schizoid personality disorder?

Answer 15

These people are anti social because of a paralyzing fear, not because of a lack of interest. They want relationships with others, its just too much of a fear

Question 16

How do we best describe dependent personality disorder?

Answer 16

Need/dependence for someone else to assume responsibility for the major decisions/areas of their life.

Question 17

What gender is more commonly diagnosed with obsessive compulsive personality disorder?

Answer 17

Men

Question 18

How do we define multiple personality disorder/dissociative identify disorder for the purposes of diagnosis?
What gender is it more common in?
What is it associated with?

Answer 18

Presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states
More common in women
Associated with a history of sexual abuse

Question 19

If we see dialectical behavior therapy, what disorder are we talking about?

Answer 19

Borderline personality

Question 20

What medications are we not using and using for personality disorders?

Answer 20

Don’t use TCA or MAOIs

SSRIs can be safe and effective

Anticonvulsants like valproic acid for impulse control and atypical antipsychotics might need to be used.

Question 21

What cluster of personality disorders have the worst prognosis?

Answer 21

B

Question 22

What to remember about cluster C disorders as people age?

Answer 22

The symptoms and characteristics tend to become exaggerated later in life