Personality Disorders

Question 1

What are personality disorders?

Answer 1

Enduring patterns of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individuals culture

Question 2

What disorders come under Cluster A?

Answer 2

• paranoid personality disorder
• schizoid personality disorder
• schizotypal personality disorder

Question 3

What disorders come under Cluster B?

Answer 3

• antisocial personality disorder
• borderline
• histrionic
• narcissistic

Question 4

What disorders come under Cluster C?

Answer 4

• avoidant
• dependent
• obsessive-compulsive

Question 5

Describe Cluster A

Answer 5

Odd or eccentric: believed to reflect a dispositional vulnerability to schizophrenia and psychosis

Question 6

Describe Cluster B

Answer 6

Dramatic, emotional or erratic: dispositional theme of problems with emotion regulation and deficits in empathy

Question 7

Describe Cluster C

Answer 7

Anxious or fearful: dispositional vulnerability to anxiety disorders

Question 8

What is negative affectivity in the dark side five factor model

Answer 8

High neuroticism

Question 9

What is detachment in the dark side five factor model

Answer 9

Low extraversion

Question 10

What is antagonism in the dark side five factor model

Answer 10

Low agreeableness

Question 11

What is disinhibition in the dark side five factor model

Answer 11

Low conscientiousness

Question 12

What is psychoticism in the dark side five factor model

Answer 12

Altered openness to experience, the reverse pole being labelled lucidity

Question 13

What are the 4 levels of personality functioning?

Answer 13

• identity
• self direction
• empathy
• intimacy

Question 14

Identity

Answer 14

Awareness of self and emotional regulation

Question 15

Self-direction

Answer 15

Appropriate ambitions and standards of behaviour

Question 16

Empathy

Answer 16

Understanding and appreciation of others

Question 17

Intimacy

Answer 17

Satisfying, enduring, and caring personal reports

Question 18

What labels are more likely to be given to male or stereotypically masculine clients?

Answer 18

Antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder

Question 19

What are some typically feminine diagnoses

Answer 19

Borderline, histrionic

Question 20

What are the main diagnostic points for Paranoid Personality Disorder?

Answer 20

• suspicion of others
• preoccupied with doubts of people’s loyalty
• reluctant to confide
• reads hidden meaning
• bears grudges
• perceives attacks to their character
• recurrent suspicions of fidelity in spouse

Question 21

Ego dystonic

Answer 21

Not something we see as part of ourselves

Question 22

What are the main diagnostic points for Schizoid Personality Disorder?

Answer 22

• doesn’t like close relationships
• likes solitude
• no desire for sex
• takes pleasure in few activities
• lacks close friends
• indifferent to praise or criticism
• emotional coldness, flattened affectivity

Question 23

Which Cluster B disorder most clearly represents a dispositional vulnerability to schizophrenia?

Answer 23

Schizotypal personality disorder

Question 24

List three biological concomitants of antisocial PD

Answer 24

Underarousal, fearlessness and disinbihition

Question 25

Gender balance for Borderline?

Answer 25

Much more likely to be diagnosed in women

Question 26

What events are Borderline PD associated with?

Answer 26

Childhood trauma or other events generating severe insecure attachment

Question 27

Treatment for Borderline?

Answer 27

Dialectical behaviour therapy

Question 28

What four areas can personality disorders manifest in?

Answer 28

1. Cognition 2. Affectivity 3. Interpersonal functioning 4. Impulse control

Question 29

Concepts general to personality disorders

Answer 29

- inflexible - pervasive - stable - long - not attributable to substance

Question 30

List some issues with personality disorders

Answer 30

- overlap in characteristics and diagnosis - categorical vs. dimensional - practical issues in applying diagnosis - stigmatising labels - lack of knowledge on cause

Question 31

Criterion gender bias

Answer 31

When criteria for a disorder might be biased

Question 32

Assessment gender bias

Answer 32

When the way that criteria are applied when assessing clients is biased

Question 33

What diagnoses might be more likely to be given to a masculine male client

Answer 33

Antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder

Question 34

What diagnoses might be more likely to be given to a feminine female client

Answer 34

Borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder

Question 35

Which cluster is the most rare

Answer 35

Cluster A

Question 36

IOUOSIBLE

Answer 36

(List Schizotypal criteria)

Question 37

CSNTLIE

Answer 37

(List schizoid criteria)

Question 38

SPCHGAF

Answer 38

(List paranoid criteria)

Question 39

FDIIRCL

Answer 39

(List antisocial criteria)

Question 40

Briefly describe Paranoid personality disorder

Answer 40

A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent

Question 41

Briefly describe Schizoid personality disorder

Answer 41

A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings

Question 42

Briefly describe Schizotypal personality disorder

Answer 42

A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships, and cognitive and perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behaviour

Question 43

Briefly describe Antisocial personality disorder

Answer 43

A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others

Question 44

Briefly describe Borderline personality disorder

Answer 44

A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self image, affects and control over impulses

Question 45

Briefly describe Histrionic personality disorder

Answer 45

A pervasive pattern of excessive emotion and attention seeking

Question 46

Briefly describe Narcissistic personality disorder

Answer 46

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy of behaviour), need for admiration, and lack of empathy

Question 47

Briefly describe Avoidant personality disorder

Answer 47

A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

Question 48

Briefly describe Dependent personality disorder

Answer 48

A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of, which leads to submissive and clinging behaviour and fears of separation

Question 49

Briefly describe Obsessive compulsive personality disorder

Answer 49

A pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness and efficiency