Personality disorders

Question 1

Specific subtypes of cluster A personality disorder

Answer 1

• Paranoid
• Schizoid
• Schizotypal

Question 2

General characteristics of cluster A personality disorder.

Answer 2

• Odd eccentric behaviour
• Do not form meaningful relationships
• Psychosis is not present

Question 3

Symptoms of paranoid personality disorder.

Answer 3

• Suspicious
• Reluctant to confide in others because of unwarrented fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her
• Persistently bears grudges

Question 4

Symptoms of schizoid personality disorder

Answer 4

• Social withdrawal / likes social isolation
• Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities
• Appears indifferent to the praise or critisism of others

Question 5

Symtoms of schizotypal personality disorder

Answer 5

• Eccentric behaviour and beliefs
• Ideas of reference
• Odd thinking and speech (eg. vague, metaphorical, overelaborate)
• Lack of close friends except first degree relatives

Question 6

Specific subtypes of cluster B personality disorder.

Answer 6

• Antisocial
• Borderline
• Histrionic
• Narcissistic

Question 7

General characteristics of cluster B personality disorder.

Answer 7

• The emotional cluster
• Associated with mood disorders
• Associated with substance abuse

Question 8

Symptoms of antisocial personality disorder.

Answer 8

• Criminal behaviour and disregard for other members of society
• Decietfulness
• Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
• Aggressiveness
• Consistent irresponsibility (as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behaviour of honor financial obligations)
• Lack of remorse

Question 9

Extreme form of antisocial personality disorder

Answer 9

Psychopathy

Question 10

Symptoms of borderline personality disorder.

Answer 10

• Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
• A pattern of unstable and intentse interpersonal relationships (charaterised by alternating between extremes of idealistaion and devaluation)
• Impulsivity in two areas that are potentially self-damaging (spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
• Recurent suicidal behaviour
• Difficulty controlling anger

Question 11

Treatment for borderline personality disorder

Answer 11

• ­Dialectic Behaviour Therapy
• ­Mentalisation-Based Treatment
• ­Symptomatic Prescribing
• Co-occurring Mental Illness

Question 12

Symptoms of histrionic personality disorder.

Answer 12

• excessive emotionality
• attention seeking
• inappropriate sexually provocative or seducing behaviour
• considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are

Question 13

Symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder.

Answer 13

• grandiose sense of self importance
• lacks empathy
• requires excessive admiration
• has a sense of entitlment

Question 14

Specific subtypes of cluster C personality disorders.

Answer 14

• Avoidant
• Anankastic
• Dependent

Question 15

Symptoms of avoidant personality disorder.

Answer 15

• social inhibition
• feelings of inadequacy
• hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

Question 16

Symptoms of anakastic personality disorder

Answer 16

• Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion
• Excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships
• Overconcientious
• Unable to discard worthless objects
• Miserly spending style

Question 17

Symtoms of dependent personality disorder

Answer 17

• excessive need to be taken care of
• leads to submissive and clingy behaviour
• has difficulty expressing disagreement with others for fear of loss of support or apporval