BPD

Question 1

What is personality ?

Answer 1

Personality is characterised as relatively stable characteristics, which help to distinguish one person to the next. Personality describes how a person relates to the world around them.

Question 2

What a three traits of a more favoured personality and three of an unflavoured one?

Answer 2

More favoured:
Flexible
Optimistic
Outgoing

Less favoured:
Inflexible
Controlling
Unstable

Question 3

According to the DSM 5 all personality disorders start with what?

Answer 3

The general personality disorder criteria

Question 4

What is the diagnostic criteria for general personality disorder ?

Answer 4

A. Enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates from the individuals culture. This leads to distress or impairment.

B. Pattern is inflexible across personal and social situations.

C. Clinically distressed

D. The person is stable and of long duration, onset traced back to adolescence or childhood

E. Disturbance is not better explained by another mental disorder

F. Disturbance is not better explained by substance abuse, physiological effects or medical condition.

Question 5

What are the ten personality disorders grouped into?

Answer 5

They are grouped into three clusters

Question 6

Describe cluster A personality

Answer 6

Odd/eccentric
Paranoid
schizoid
schizotypal

Question 7

Describe cluster B personality

Answer 7

Dramatic/erratic 
Anti social 
Borderline 
Narcissistic 
Histrionic

Question 8

Describe cluster c personality

Answer 8

Anxious/fearful
Avoidant
Dependant
Obsessive-compulsive

Question 9

Who proposed the big 5 theory?

Answer 9

McCrae and Costa 2005

Question 10

What did skodol and bender 2009 say about the three clusters of PD’s?

Answer 10

They are seen as inadequate

Question 11

Populations vary on a continuum across 5 domains who suggest this?

Answer 11

McCrae and Costa 2005