Personality Disorder Practice Exam
Questions and Answers
Which of the following characteristics would you expect to assess in a patient with
antisocial personality disorder?
a. Insight into one's behavior.
b. Lack of guilt for wrongdoing.
c. Ability to learn from past experiences.
d. Compliance with authority. - ANSWER-*b.* Lack of guilt for wrongdoing.
Milieu therapy is a therapeutic choice for patients with antisocial personality disorder
since this therapy:
a. Provides a system of punishment and reward for behavior modification.
b. Emulates a social community in which the patient may learn to improve social
engagement.
c. Provides mostly one-to-one interaction between the patient and therapist.
d. Provides a structured setting in which the patients have little input into planning of
their care. - ANSWER-*b.* Emulates a social community in which the patient may
learn to improve social engagement.
Which of the following behaviors would be considered the most significant indication
of positive change in a patient diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder?
a. Patient became angry only once in group this week.
b. Patient was able to wait a full hour without verbally abusing the staff.
c. On his own initiative, the patient wrote a note of apology to another patient he had
injured in a physical altercation.
d. Patient stated that he would no longer start fights with his peer group. - ANSWER-
*c.* On his own initiative, the patient wrote a note of apology to another patient he
had injured in a physical altercation.
Which of the following behavioral patterns is characteristic of individuals with
narcissistic personality disorder?
a. Overly self-centered and exploitative of others.
b. Suspicious and mistrustful of others.
c. Rule conscious and disapproving of change.
d. Anxious and socially isolated. - ANSWER-*a.* Overly self-centered and
exploitative of others.
Which of the following behavioral patterns is characteristic of individuals with
schizotypal personality disorder?
Questions and Answers
Which of the following characteristics would you expect to assess in a patient with
antisocial personality disorder?
a. Insight into one's behavior.
b. Lack of guilt for wrongdoing.
c. Ability to learn from past experiences.
d. Compliance with authority. - ANSWER-*b.* Lack of guilt for wrongdoing.
Milieu therapy is a therapeutic choice for patients with antisocial personality disorder
since this therapy:
a. Provides a system of punishment and reward for behavior modification.
b. Emulates a social community in which the patient may learn to improve social
engagement.
c. Provides mostly one-to-one interaction between the patient and therapist.
d. Provides a structured setting in which the patients have little input into planning of
their care. - ANSWER-*b.* Emulates a social community in which the patient may
learn to improve social engagement.
Which of the following behaviors would be considered the most significant indication
of positive change in a patient diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder?
a. Patient became angry only once in group this week.
b. Patient was able to wait a full hour without verbally abusing the staff.
c. On his own initiative, the patient wrote a note of apology to another patient he had
injured in a physical altercation.
d. Patient stated that he would no longer start fights with his peer group. - ANSWER-
*c.* On his own initiative, the patient wrote a note of apology to another patient he
had injured in a physical altercation.
Which of the following behavioral patterns is characteristic of individuals with
narcissistic personality disorder?
a. Overly self-centered and exploitative of others.
b. Suspicious and mistrustful of others.
c. Rule conscious and disapproving of change.
d. Anxious and socially isolated. - ANSWER-*a.* Overly self-centered and
exploitative of others.
Which of the following behavioral patterns is characteristic of individuals with
schizotypal personality disorder?
