Personality Disorders Exam Questions
and Answers
Schizotypal Personality:
- *Features and prevelance*
- Diagnostic criteria - ANSWER-Socially isolated, mild paranoia
Prevelance: *1-2%*
"Gjennomående/prevasive" pattern of *Social and interpersonal deficits*
Acute discomfort with, reduced capacity for Close relationship
*Cognitive and perceptual Distortions*
Schizotypal Personality:
- Features and prevelance
- *Diagnostic criteria* - ANSWER-At least *5*
1. Ideas of reference (exclude delusion of reference)
2. Odd belief or *Magical thinking* influence behavior
3. Unusual *perceptual experiences*
4. Odd thinking and speech: Overelaborate, stereotyped, metaphoric
5. Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
6. Imappropriate or constricted affect
7. Lack close *friends*
8. *excessive social anxiety*
Dissocial/antisocial Personality disorder
- *Prevasive pattern*
- Prevelance
- Common findings in their social history
- Diagnostic criteria - ANSWER-Prevasive patter:
1. Disregard for others rights,
2. Violation of other rights
Since *age 15 years*
Other features:
- Non-modifiable behavior - Not to punishment
- Low tolerance to fustration
- Low threshold for aggression
- Tendency to *blame others*
Dissocial/antisocial Personality disorder
- Prevasive pattern and
- *Prevelance, outcome and comorbidity*
- Common findings in their social history
- Diagnostic criteria - ANSWER-Prevelance:
MEN: *2-4%*
Women: 0,5-1%
, Outcome 30 year follow up:
- Remission: 12%
- Improvement: 20%
Cormorbidity:
- Alcohol/drug abuse
- Mood disorder
- Anxiety disorder
- Pathological gameling
- Other personality disorders
Dissocial/antisocial Personality disorder
- Prevasive pattern
- Prevelance
- *Common findings in their social history*
- Diagnostic criteria - ANSWER-Childhood behavior problems:
1. Fighting
2. stealing
3. conflict with adults
4. lying, cheating, stealing
5. *fire Setting*
6. *Cruel* to animals or other children
7.*Criminal Behavior*
Dissocial/antisocial Personality disorder
- Prevasive pattern and
- Prevelance
- Common findings in their social history
- *Diagnostic criteria* - ANSWER-At least *3* of following
1. Failure to conform to *social norm*
2. *Deceitfulness*: repeated lying, conning others for personal pleasure or profit
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability and agressiveness: Repeated physcial fights/assults
5. Reckless disregard for *safety*: of self and other
6. Consistent *irresponsibility*
7. *Lack of remorse*
Emotional unstable personality disorder
- *Features*
- the 2 subtypes - ANSWER-1. Act *impulsively*, no consideration of consequence
2. *unpredictable mood*
3. Liability to outburst *emotions*
4. *Incapacity to control* of emotion
5. Quarrelsome behavior (Kranglete)
6. Tendency to *conflicts* with others
Emotional unstable personality disorder
- Features
- *the 2 subtypes* - ANSWER-1. Impulsive type
2. Borderline type
and Answers
Schizotypal Personality:
- *Features and prevelance*
- Diagnostic criteria - ANSWER-Socially isolated, mild paranoia
Prevelance: *1-2%*
"Gjennomående/prevasive" pattern of *Social and interpersonal deficits*
Acute discomfort with, reduced capacity for Close relationship
*Cognitive and perceptual Distortions*
Schizotypal Personality:
- Features and prevelance
- *Diagnostic criteria* - ANSWER-At least *5*
1. Ideas of reference (exclude delusion of reference)
2. Odd belief or *Magical thinking* influence behavior
3. Unusual *perceptual experiences*
4. Odd thinking and speech: Overelaborate, stereotyped, metaphoric
5. Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
6. Imappropriate or constricted affect
7. Lack close *friends*
8. *excessive social anxiety*
Dissocial/antisocial Personality disorder
- *Prevasive pattern*
- Prevelance
- Common findings in their social history
- Diagnostic criteria - ANSWER-Prevasive patter:
1. Disregard for others rights,
2. Violation of other rights
Since *age 15 years*
Other features:
- Non-modifiable behavior - Not to punishment
- Low tolerance to fustration
- Low threshold for aggression
- Tendency to *blame others*
Dissocial/antisocial Personality disorder
- Prevasive pattern and
- *Prevelance, outcome and comorbidity*
- Common findings in their social history
- Diagnostic criteria - ANSWER-Prevelance:
MEN: *2-4%*
Women: 0,5-1%
, Outcome 30 year follow up:
- Remission: 12%
- Improvement: 20%
Cormorbidity:
- Alcohol/drug abuse
- Mood disorder
- Anxiety disorder
- Pathological gameling
- Other personality disorders
Dissocial/antisocial Personality disorder
- Prevasive pattern
- Prevelance
- *Common findings in their social history*
- Diagnostic criteria - ANSWER-Childhood behavior problems:
1. Fighting
2. stealing
3. conflict with adults
4. lying, cheating, stealing
5. *fire Setting*
6. *Cruel* to animals or other children
7.*Criminal Behavior*
Dissocial/antisocial Personality disorder
- Prevasive pattern and
- Prevelance
- Common findings in their social history
- *Diagnostic criteria* - ANSWER-At least *3* of following
1. Failure to conform to *social norm*
2. *Deceitfulness*: repeated lying, conning others for personal pleasure or profit
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability and agressiveness: Repeated physcial fights/assults
5. Reckless disregard for *safety*: of self and other
6. Consistent *irresponsibility*
7. *Lack of remorse*
Emotional unstable personality disorder
- *Features*
- the 2 subtypes - ANSWER-1. Act *impulsively*, no consideration of consequence
2. *unpredictable mood*
3. Liability to outburst *emotions*
4. *Incapacity to control* of emotion
5. Quarrelsome behavior (Kranglete)
6. Tendency to *conflicts* with others
Emotional unstable personality disorder
- Features
- *the 2 subtypes* - ANSWER-1. Impulsive type
2. Borderline type
