2. Questionnaire

3. Personality • Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself, which are exhibited in a wide range of important social and personal contexts

4. Personality Disorder • Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of important social and personal contexts, and are inflexible and maladaptive, and cause either significant functional impairment or subjective distress

5. Characteristics of PD • 1) Unusually extreme • 2) Problematic • The person or others

6. Characteristics of PD • 3) Social • Manifest during interactions with others • 4) Stable • Typically become visible during adolescence and persist throughout life • 5) Ego-Syntonic • Person with PD doesn’t think anything is wrong

7. Types of Personality Disorders • A) Disorders of unhappiness and anxiety • B) Disorders in relating with others • C) Disorders in thinking and lack of contact with reality • All disorders have some of these characteristics

8. 10 Personality Disorders • Dependent Personality Disorder • Avoidant Personality Disorder • Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder • Paranoid Personality Disorder • Histrionic Personality Disorder • Antisocial Personality Disorder • Narcissistic Personality Disorder • Schizoid Personality Disorder • Schizotypal Personality Disorder • Borderline Personality Disorder

9. Disorders of unhappiness and anxiety • Dependent Personality Disorder • Avoidant Personality Disorder • Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

10. Score • 16 = T • 35 = T • 45 = T • 47 = T • 56 = T • 73 = T

11. Dependent Personality Disorder • A pattern of submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be taken care of • Fear of separation • Easily hurt by criticism • Let others make important decisions for them and often jump from relationship to relationship • They often remain in abusive, exploitative relationships • Can only function within a relationship

12. Score • 18 = T • 40 = T • 47 = T • 48 = T • 57 = F • 69 = T • 80 = F

13. Avoidant Personality Disorder • A pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

14. Avoidant Personality Disorder • Avoidant personality disorder is characterized by pervasive and extreme social anxiety • People with this disorder often feel inadequate, avoid social situations, • They are fearful of being rejected and worry about embarrassing themselves in front of others • They exaggerate the potential difficulties of new situations to rationalize avoiding them • They yearn for social relations yet feel they are unable to obtain them (are unworthy of them)

15. Score • 2 = T • 7 = F • 14 = F • 22 = F • 29 = T • 41 = F • 53 = F • 59 = T

16. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder • A pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control at the expense of flexibility

17. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder • Four of the following • 1) Over concern with rules and details • 2) Perfectionism • 3) Workaholism • 4) Inflexibility • A set way of thinking or behaving

18. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder • 5) Packrat behavior • Note: seems opposite to other aspects (Freud) • 6) Inability to delegate • 7) Miserliness • 8) Rigidity and stubbornness

19. Disorders in relating to others • Paranoid Personality Disorder • Histrionic Personality Disorder • Antisocial Personality Disorder • Narcissistic Personality Disorder

20. Score • 6 = T • 8 = T • 33 = T • 42 = T • 48 = T • 49 = T • 60 = T

21. Paranoid Personality Disorder • A pattern of distrust and suspiciousness such that others’ motives are interpreted as malevolent • Preoccupied with concerns about the loyalty and trustworthiness of others • Misinterpret or over interpret situations in line with their suspicions • Suspicious of other’s motives • Sees hidden messages in benign comments

22. Score • 10 = F • 21 = T • 24 = F • 27 = F • 32 = T • 48 = F • 51 = T • 57 = T

23. Histrionic Personality Disorder • A pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking • Pursue attention by being highly dramatic or overtly seductive • Tend to exaggerate friendships and relationships, believing that everyone loves them • Seek re-assurance, praise • Shallow emotions, flamboyant, self-centred