Personality Disorders

Question 1

What are personality disorders?

Answer 1

abnormal personalities that are maladaptive and cause problems to its possessor and others

Question 2

When do personality disorders appear?

Answer 2

before the age of 18

Question 3

What are cluster A personality disorders?

Answer 3

“odd or eccentric”
paranoid
schizoid
schizotypal

Question 4

What are cluster B personality disorders?

Answer 4

"dramatic or emotional"
dissocial
emotionally unstable
histronic 
narcisstic

Question 5

What are cluster C personality disorders?

Answer 5

“anxious or avoidant”
ankanistic - OCD
anxious
dependant

Question 6

What is the criteria for paranoid personality disorder?

Answer 6

4 of:
eccessive sensitivity to set backs
suspiciousness and tendancy to misconstrue nice actions as hostile
tenatious sense of personal rights outkeeping with the actual situation
recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding sexual fidelity of partner
persistent self referential attitude associated with excessive self importance
preoccupation with conspiracies about the world

Question 7

Who is more prone to paranoid personality disorders - males or females?

Answer 7

males

Question 8

How do you treat paranoid personality disorders?

Answer 8

antiphsycotics

Question 9

What is the criteria for schizoid personality disorders?

Answer 9

4 of:
few activities provide pleasure
emotional coldness, detachment or flattened affect
indifferent to either praise or criticism
limited capacity to express warm feelings
little interest in sexual experiences
always choose solitary activties
excessive preoccupation with fantasy/introspection
neither desires nor has any close friends
marked insensitivity to social norms

Question 10

Who is more prone to schizoid personality disorders - males or females?

Answer 10

male

Question 11

What is the criteria for schizotypal personality disorder?

Answer 11

5 or more of:
ideas of reference - excluding delusions
unusual perceptual experiences
odd beliefs or magical thinking
unusual thinking and speech
innapropriate or constricted affect
lack of close friends
excessive social anxiety
odd and eccentric behaviour and appearance

Question 12

What is the criteria for a dissocial personality disorder?

Answer 12

3 of:
callous unconcern for feelings of others
irresponsible and disregard for social norms/rules/obligations
incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, no difficulty establishing them
very low tolerance to frustration and low threshold for agression/violence
incapacity to experience guilt
marked proneness to blame others

Question 13

Who is more prone to dissocial personality disorders - males or females?

Answer 13

males

Question 14

What is the criteria for emotionally unstable - impulsive personality disorder?

Answer 14

3 of:
tendancy to act suddenly without consideration of consequences
quarrelsome behaviour and conflict with others
liability to outbursts of anger or violence
difficulty in maintaining any course of action that offers no immediate reward
unstable mood

Question 15

What are the two types of emotionally unstable personality disorders?

Answer 15

impulsive

borderline

Question 16

How do you treat impulsive emotionally unstable personality disorders?

Answer 16

lamotrigine - mood stabaliser

Question 17

Who is more prone to impulsive emotionally unstable personality disorders - males or females?

Answer 17

females

Question 18

What is the criteria for a borderline emotionally unstable personality disorder?

Answer 18

2 of:
disturbances in and uncertainty about self image, aims and internal preferences
intense and unstable relationships
excessive effort to avoid abandonment
recurrent threats or acts of self harm
chronic feelings of emptiness

Question 19

Who is more prone to borderline emotionally unstable personality disorders - males or females?

Answer 19

females

Question 20

How do you treat emotionally unstable borderline disorders?

Answer 20

dialectal behavioural therapy

Question 21

What is dialectal behavioural therapy?

Answer 21

learning to accept and regulate emotions over the last 6months to a year

Question 22

What is the criteria for histronic personality disorder?

Answer 22

4 of:
self dramatisation
shallow, liable affectivtiy
continually seeks excitement and likes activties where they are the centre of attention
innapropriately seductive in appearance or behaviour
overly concerned with physical attractiveness

Question 23

Who is more prone to histronic personality disorders - males or females?

Answer 23

males

Question 24

What is the criteria for narcisstic personality disorders?

Answer 24

5 of:
grandoise logic of self importance
fixation with fantasies of infinite success, control, brilliance, beauty or idyllic love 
thought that they are exceptional
desire for unwarrented admiration
sense of entitlement
interpersonally opressive behaviour
no form of empathy
resentment to others
display of egotistical and concieted behaviours or attitures

Question 25

Who is more prone to narcisstic personality disorders?

Answer 25

males

Question 26

How do you treat cluster c?

Answer 26

social skill training | antidepressants

Question 27

What is the criteria for anakistic personality disorders?

Answer 27

4 of: excessive doubt or caution preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organisation perfectionism that interferes with task completion undue preoccupation with productivity pendantic, excessive adherance to social conventions regidity and stubbornness unreasonable insistance that others shoud think the way that they think

Question 28

Who is more prone to ankanistic personality disorders?

Answer 28

males

Question 29

What is the criteria for anxious personality disorders?

Answer 29

4 of: persistant feelings of tension/apprehension belief that onself if inept/inferior to others excessive peroccupation about being rejected in social situations unwillingness to get involved with people unless certain of being liked restrictions in lifestyle because of need of security avoidance of social or occupational activities that involve interpersonal contact

Question 30

Who is more prone to anxious personality disorders?

Answer 30

male/female = equal

Question 31

What is the criteria for dependant personality disorders?

Answer 31

4 of: allowing/encouraging other to make their important decisions subordination of ones own needs to those of others unwillingness to make even reasonable demands on people feeling uncomfortable or helpless when alone preoccupation of fears of being left to look after oneself limited capacity to make everyday decisions without excessive reassurance