Exam 13: Personality Disorders

In contrast to previous research, a study by Paris and associates conducted over three decades showed that borderline personality disorder patients, on average, experience:

Which of the following personality disorders falls in the anxious/fearful cluster?

Borderline personality disorder tends to be comorbid with mood disorders.

In studying the childhood roots of psychopathy, researchers have revealed the following:

A concern with the use of 'cut-off points' in self-report measures to diagnose personality disorders is that they

In object relations theory, 'splitting' refers to the tendency of borderline personality disorders to

Medication is the single best treatment for personality disorders.

According to Montreal psychiatrist Joel Paris, which of the following individuals with borderline personality disorder would be most likely to commit suicide?

Contemporary psychodynamic theory suggests that obsessive-compulsive personality is a result of

Recent Canadian research (Lee et al., 2009) on psychopathy in youth shows that, over a six-month period:

In contrast to research on reduced anxiety and inhibition, recent research on psychopathy has focused upon

In addition to having a "textbook case" of anti-social personality disorder, Ashley Smith, who died in an Ontario psychiatric prison, was also diagnosed with:

According to Alden and associates (2002), the one symptom that reliably differentiates avoidant personality disorder from dependent personality disorder is the avoidant person's:

The personality traits tapped by the DSM-5 personality disorders category

It has been found that in avoidance learning tasks, the reason psychopaths had difficulty learning to avoid shock was because:

Andrea has been diagnosed with psychopathy. According to research conducted by Harpur, Hart, and Hare (1994), how would we describe her personality in terms of McCrae and Costa's five-factor model?

According to McMain and colleagues, a key focus of Dialectic Behaviour Therapy with Borderline Personality Disorder is described as treating:

What is the third-most prevalent type of personality disorder diagnosed via structured interviews?

A primary characteristic of histrionic personality disorder is

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is often comorbid with obsessive-compulsive disorder.