Exam 13: Personality Disorders

One way to enhance the assessment and diagnosis of personality disorders is to:

Dialectical behaviour therapy is a combination of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural therapies.

Paris (2009)stated that _____ are ineffective in treating borderline personality disorder.

A criticism of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised is that it fails to assess the following key feature of Cleckley's conception of psychopathy:

Personality disorders are defined as:

One goal of therapy for people with borderline personality disorder is for them to stop splitting.

Discuss the rationale for including personality disorders in the DSM-5.

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:

A major problem that remains in diagnosing personality disorders is:

Convicted felons are most likely to have which of the following disorders?

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

Research on paranoid personality disorder (Edens et al., 2009)suggests that:

Women with borderline personality disorder tend to have social networks that are _______ and __________ than other women.

A five-factor personality analysis by Alden and associates led them to conclude that avoidant personality disorder is the only personality disorder characterized by:

Which of the following personality disorders falls in the dramatic/erratic cluster?

Two primary features of Linehan's diathesis-stress theory of borderline personality disorder are:

University students:

Stephen Porter and colleagues of Dalhousie University (2009)have revealed that incarcerated psychopaths, as compared to non-psychopaths, were 2.5 times

According to the MCMI-III, which three personality pathology scales are grouped as severe?

The heart rate of psychopaths differs most from that of normals when they are: