MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY NURS 661 EXAM 3 MEGADECK

MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY NURS 661 EXAM 3 MEGADECK

(ACTUAL / ) QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

Cluster A Personality Disorders - ---Answers---Schizotypal Schizoid Paranoid

Cluster B Personality Disorders - ---Answers---Antisocial Borderline Histrionic Narcissistic

Cluster C Personality Disorders - ---Answers---OCD Avoidant Dependant

DSM-5 Paranoid Personality Disorders - ---Answers--- Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent. 4 or more of the following

• Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting,

harming, or deceiving him or her

• Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty of

trustworthiness of friends or associates 1 / 3

• Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted

fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her

• Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into

benign remarks or events

• Persistently bears grudges
• Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that

are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack

• Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding

fidelity of spouse or sexual partner

DSM-5 Schizoid Personality Disorder - ---Answers---A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal

settings, indicated by 4 more more of the following:

• Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including

being part of a family

• Almost always chooses solitary activities
• Has little, in any, interest in having sexual experiences with

another person

• Takes pleasures in few, if any, activities
• Lacks close friends or confidants other than first degree

relatives

• Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
• Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened

affectivity

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DSM-5 Schizotypal Personality Disorder - ---Answers---A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by 5 or more

of the following:

• Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
• Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and

is inconsistent with subcultural norms

• Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
• Odd thinking and speech
• Suspicousness or paranoid ideation
• Inappropriate or constricted affect
• Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric or peculiar
• Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree

relatives

• Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with

familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self

DSM-5 Antisocial Personality Disorder - ---Answers---A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three or

more of the following:

• Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful

behaviors, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest

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