Personality Disorders

Question 1

What is a personality disorder?

Answer 1

Markedly disharmonious attitudes and behaviours involving several areas of functioning.
Behaviour pattern is enduring and pervasive and maladaptive to range of situations
Appearing in childhood/adolescence and continuing to adulthood

Question 2

What does having a personality disorder mean?

Answer 2

Having deeply ingrained maladaptive patterns of behaviour, thinking and feeling

Question 3

Diagnosis of a PD is generally not done below what age?

Answer 3

17 years old

Question 4

What are the cluster A personality disorders?

Answer 4

ODD type

Schizoid
Schizotypal
Paranoid

Question 5

What are the cluster B personality disorders?

Answer 5

Dramatic type

Dissocial, boarderline, narcissistic, histrionic

Question 6

What are the cluster C personality disorders?

Answer 6

Anxious/fearful type

Avoidant, dependent, obsessive compulsive, PD NOS