Personality disorders

Question 1

3 aspects of lifestyle that are effected by personality disorder?

Answer 1

Interpersonal - impulse and arousal issues
Intrapersonal - abandonment issues, unstable relationships
Social - invovled with police, conflict

Question 2

Cluster A personality disorder is seen with what 2 features? 3 main subcategories?

Answer 2

Odd/eccentric

Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal

Question 3

Cluster A personality disorder, paranoid features?

Answer 3

Holds grudges
Really upset by slight offsets and setbacks
Sense of personal rights
Suspicious

Question 4

Cluster A personality disorder Schizoid traits?

Answer 4

Solitary
Emotionally cold
No difference in praise or criticism
anhedonia
Lack interest to be close or intimate

Question 5

Cluster B personality disorder seen with what 2 features? 4 subtypes?

Answer 5

Flamboyant to dramatic behaviours

Histrionic
Antisocial
Borderline
Antisocial

Question 6

How do Cluster B histrionic personality types tend to come across?

Answer 6

Self dramatised
Always seeking excitement and activities where they are centre of attention
Exaggerated expression of emotions

Question 7

How do Cluster B antisocial personality types tend to come across?

Answer 7

Callous unconcern for others feelings
In trouble with the police a lot
Low tolerance for frustration
Cant experience guilt or profit from experience
Lie, use aliases

Question 8

Features of Cluster B borderline personality type disorder?

Answer 8

Panic
Frantic behaviour
Intense brief relationships
Suicidal ideation
Cant plan ahead
Act impulsively 
Intense anger
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Depression, rage, anxiety, panic attacks
Reckless behaviour, drug abuse, binge eating, self harm

Question 9

Risk factors for borderline personality disorder?

Answer 9

Sexual abuse
Adverse childhood experiences
Neurobiological development and gene-environment interaction

Question 10

How do you manage someone with border line personality disorder? including 3 therapies

Answer 10

Dialectal behavioural therapy
Mentalisation based therapy
Cognitive analytical therapy

Focus on optimistic and trusting relationships
Managing transitions and planning for crisis’
Goal setting
Response to suicidality

Question 11

Cluster C personality disorders tend to be described with what 2 behaviours? 3 subcategories?

Answer 11

Fearful and anxious

Anxious avoidant
Anankastic
Dependant

Question 12

How do Cluster C anxious avoidant people tend to come across?

Answer 12

Feelings of tension and apprehension
Preoccupied with criticism
Sense of inferiority
Resistant to interpersonal contact

Question 13

How do Cluster C anankastic individuals come across

Answer 13

Doubt and caution
Preoccupied with organisation
Rules and schedules
Obsessed with minor details

Question 14

How do cluster C dependant individuals come across?

Answer 14

Compliance to others wishes
Difficultly making their own decisions
Inability to control oneself