Personality Disorders
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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of personality disorders, focusing on their classification, diagnostic criteria, etiology, and treatment approaches. Students will examine major personality disorders as defined by contemporary diagnostic systems, such as the DSM-5, with an emphasis on distinguishing features, prevalence, comorbidity, and the impact of personality pathology on functioning. The course also covers theories related to the development of personality disorders, evidence-based intervention strategies, ethical considerations, and the social and cultural context of diagnosis and treatment. By engaging in case studies and critical discussions, students develop the knowledge and skills necessary for effective identification and management of personality disorders in clinical and community settings.
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Abnormal Psychology Perspectives 5th Edition by David J.A. Dozois
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Chapter 1: Concepts of Abnormality Throughout History
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Q1) Deinstitutionalization in the 1950's was a great success, thanks to the careful and advance planning of community mental health programs
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) During the 17 century, in which Canadian province was it that the development of proper places of care for the mentally ill was most accepted?
A) Alberta
B) Manitoba
C) Quebec
D) British Columbia
E) Ontario
Answer: C
Q3) Philippe Pinel was responsible for bringing moral therapy to North America.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives on Abnormal Behaviour
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Q1) Joe is often characterized as "chatter box." A Freudian therapist would likely feel that he is fixated at which stage of development?
A) latency stage
B) oral stage
C) phallic stage
D) genital stage
E) anal stage
Answer: B
Q2) Regarding the HPA axis which of the following statements is NOT true?
A) The HPA axis refers to the hippocampus, pituitary gland and adrenal cortex
B) Action of the HPA includes release of cortisol by the adrenal cortex
C) Cortisol facilitates an individual's response to short-term threat
D) Cortisol affects the body in ways that confer survival benefits
E) The HPA is chronically activated in most cases of depression and some cases of anxiety disorder
Answer: A
Q3) Freud felt that the ego develops to curb the desires of the id.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Classification and Diagnosis
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Q1) Diagnosis can lead clinicians to make assumptions about an individual which are not valid.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Joseph is physically addicted to alcohol and he gets the "shakes," feels nauseated, and becomes anxious if he doesn't have a drink for a day or two. What category of disorder would he fit under, according to the DSM-IV-TR?
A) not enough information is provided to make a diagnosis
B) Mood disorder
C) alcoholism
D) General medical disorder (Axis III)
E) Substance-related disorder
Answer: E
Q3) The DSM system has been criticized as being low in concurrent validity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Describe the five axes of the DSM-IV-TR.
Answer: The DSM-IV Multiaxial
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Chapter 4: Psychological Assessment and Research
Methods
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Q1) According to the text, which of the following is NOT true of alternate form reliability estimates?
A) They are used to circumvent the problem of improvement due to practice which can occur in estimates of test-retest reliability.
B) they require the creation of two forms of the same test, in which the questions are phrased slightly differently but are intended to assess the same construct as the first.
C) They are used to circumvent the problem of familiarity with questions which can occur in estimates of test-retest reliability.
D) A low correlation between the two forms demonstrates good alternate-form reliability.
E) A high correlation between the two forms demonstrates good alternate-form reliability.
Q2) List the four sets of variables in the Kanfer and Phillips (1970) SORC model.
Q3) The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test is the oldest and most commonly used neuropsychological test.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Anxiety and Related Disorders
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Q1) Proposed for DSM-5 is that the anxiety disorders will have which three categories?
A) anxiety disorders; obsessive-compulsive-related disorders; and phobic disorders
B) anxiety disorders; obsessive-compulsive-related disorders; trauma-related disorders
C) obsessive-compulsive-related disorders; trauma-related disorders; phobic disorders
D) anxiety disorders; trauma-related disorders; phobic disorders
E) anxiety-related disorders; phobic disorders; hoarding-related disorders
Q2) Individuals who are susceptible to anxiety disorders do not appear to have atypical beliefs about the self, but have been found to have a number of distorted beliefs about specific threats in the environment
A)True
B)False
Q3) The amygdala can effectively process external (i.e., fear-provoking) stimuli and determine its survival relevance without the influence of higher brain functioning
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Dissociative and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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Q1) Heather has suddenly left here home and has lost all memory of herself and her past life. She is most likely suffering from A) repression.
B) depersonalization.
C) dissociative amnesia.
D) dissociative fugue.
E) dissociative identity disorder.
Q2) DSM-IV-TR criteria for conversion disorder requires ruling out that the patient is not feigning the disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the proposed revision of DSM-5, the somatoform disorders will A) remain unchanged.
B) be renamed as the somatic symptom disorders.
C) will be grouped together with the delerium, dementia and amnestic disorders.
D) will be re-grouped together with the dissociative disorders.
E) will have their criteria revised to require ruling out symptoms being secondary to a medical condition.
Q4) Describe five patterns of memory loss characteristic of dissociative amnesia.
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Chapter 7: Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions
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Q1) In comparison to sympathetic system innervation, which relies on hormonal transmission, the parasympathetic system operates much more quickly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following behaviours may NOT be considered emotion-focused coping?
A) watching television
B) taking drugs
C) thinking about something unrelated to the problem
D) drinking
E) identifying and rectifying the source of the threat
Q3) Immune cells are produced and stored in all of the following except the A) thymus gland.
B) large intestines.
C) lymph nodes.
D) bone marrow.
E) small intestines.
Q4) In 90% of cases of hypertension a specific cause can be identified.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Outline the differences between signs and symptoms. Page 9
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Chapter 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of Beck's cognitive distortions described in the text?
A) All-or-none thinking
B) Negative feedback seeking
C) Overgeneralizations
D) Magnification
E) Jumping to conclusions
Q2) A manic episode must be at least one week long, and does not typically last much longer than this.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the techniques of TMS and VNS and their effectiveness in treating depression.
Q4) It is estimated that for every completed suicide, there are __________ suicide attempts.
A) 5-7
B) 18-20
C) 12-15
D) 2-3
E) 8-10
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Chapter 9: Schizophrenia
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Q1) Research on expressed emotion indicates that people with schizophrenia are most likely to suffer a relapse if
A) family members are critical and overinvolved.
B) family members ignore them and fail to provide support.
C) society labels them and rejects them.
D) family and peers are unable to see past their illness.
E) family members are critical and uninvolved.
Q2) The research shows that the symptom-based subtypes shift over time and do not have much use in terms of prognosis.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Stress plays a major role, both in the development of schizophrenia and in the severity of symptoms. Briefly describe different areas of stress that have been shown to affect schizophrenia (family, culture, social status).
Q4) Heterogeneity in schizophrenia makes it easier to predict the course for affected individuals
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the five subtypes of schizophrenia in the DSM-IV-TR.
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Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
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Q1) Family therapy for eating disorders appears to have greater effectiveness for:
A) adults
B) adolescents
C) males
D) females
E) all patients
Q2) In order to be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa according to DSM-IV, females past puberty must miss __________ consecutive menstrual cycles.
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
E) 6
Q3) Research has shown that the most effective type of treatment for bulimia nervosa is A) SSRIs.
B) interpersonal therapy.
C) group therapy.
D) cognitive-behavioural therapy.
E) supportive psychotherapy.
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Chapter 11: Substance-Related Disorders
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Q1) The two brain regions most damaged by heavy alcohol use are
A) limbic system and medulla.
B) cerebral cortex and hippocampus.
C) basal ganglia and cerebellum.
D) thalamus and hypothalamus.
E) septum and amygdala.
Q2) Being psychologically accustomed to a substance due to regular usage is defined as habituation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The majority of people who have reported drinking can be categorized as __________ drinkers.
A) light frequent
B) light infrequent
C) heavy infrequent
D) moderate frequent
E) heavy frequent
Q4) Define alcohol expectancy theory and discuss the research findings regarding this theory.
Q5) Discuss the sociocultural factors that influence drinking patterns.
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Chapter 12: The Personality Disorders
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Q1) Jane has a tendency to see everything people do as a personal attack on her safety and privacy. Judging from this characteristic, which personality disorder is Jane most likely to have?
A) avoidant
B) paranoid
C) dependent
D) narcissistic
E) histrionic
Q2) Despite the research, the Correctional Service of Canada seems reluctant to accept the fact that
A) psychopathy can occur in children.
B) psychopathy can occur in men.
C) psychopathy is a valid diagnosis.
D) psychopathy can occur in women.
E) psychopathy exists at all in the prison population.
Q3) The term "borderline" was used in the past to describe a person on the border between neurosis and psychosis.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
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Q1) Mitka (1998) found that Viagra generated erections in __________ of men with severe erectile problems.
A) 2/3
B) 1/2
C) 1/4
D) 3/4
E) 1/3
Q2) Sensate focus is a procedure where
A) sexual education is a major component.
B) couples learn to experience sexual enjoyment without ever having intercourse.
C) couples learn techniques to communicate effectively with each other, about all issues, not just sexual issues.
D) specific instructions for lovemaking are given, starting with pleasuring and then with intercourse.
E) couples learn to be comfortable with each other, to pleasure and enjoy each other at first without sexual intercourse.
Q3) Compare and contrast homosexual gender dysphoria with heterosexual gender dysphoria.
Q4) Describe the DSM-IV-TR category of sexual pain disorders.
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Chapter 14: Developmental Disorders
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Q1) Fetal alcohol syndrome is found in ______ per1000 live births.
A) 1 to 3
B) 5 to 10
C) 10 to 15
D) 20 to 30
E) 40 to 50
Q2) In sex-linked inheritance, the abnormal gene is carried on the X chromosome.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Stanford Binet Scale is an assessment of adaptive behaviour.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The three domains of adaptive skills used by the AAMR in the definition of mental retardation today are
A) conceptual, social, and practical.
B) social, intellectual, and conceptual.
C) cognitive, social, and emotional.
D) behavioural, social, and emotional.
E) cognitive, social, and practical.
Q5) What are the effects of phenylketonuria (PKU)? How is it detected and treated?
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Chapter 15: Behaviour and Emotional Disorders of Childhood
and Adolescence
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Q1) One type of pharmacological treatment that shows some promise in the treatment of SAD and GAD is
A) Ritalin.
B) tricyclic antidepressants.
C) selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
D) antianxiolytics.
E) benzodiazepines.
Q2) One of the most common psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence is A) depression.
B) ADHD.
C) conduct disorder.
D) anxiety.
E) ODD.
Q3) The prevalence of mental disorders varies by the sex and age of the child.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Parent training programs are based on a social learning causal model of conduct problems.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Mental Disorders and Aging
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Q1) More than half of individuals diagnosed with MCI will progress to a diagnosis of dementia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Women are twice as likely as men to develop dementia.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Frontotemporal dementia is a term used to describe a heterogeneous group of disorders including
A) Alzheimer's disease.
B) Lewy body dementia.
C) Pick's disease.
D) primary dementia.
E) vascular dementia.
Q4) Delirium can occur at any age.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the hypothesized etiology of Alzheimer's disease.
Q6) Highlight some of the factors that make it difficult to diagnose sleep disorders in older adults.
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Chapter 17: Therapies
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Q1) Discuss the argument about whether psychologists should prescribe medication, provide your opinion and several reasons for it.
Q2) Which of the following is not a characteristic of Gestalt therapy?
A) It often interprets clients dreams.
B) It integrates clients' inner feelings and their external environments.
C) It encourages clients to talk freely about other people.
D) It helps clients become aware of feelings and needs that have been ignored or distorted.
E) It often employs the empty chair technique.
Q3) A new cognitive-behavioral therapy has shifted focus away from challenging the content of thoughts, and towards ___________________.
A) challenging the nature of one's emotions
B) questioning one's behavioral responses
C) attending to and accepting the presence of one's thoughts
D) identifying repetitive themes in one's thoughts and responses to the therapist
E) engaging in behavioral experiments with the client
Q4) What does the current evidence say about the effects of psychotherapy, and which orientation is the most effective?
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Chapter 18: Prevention and Mental Health Promotion in the Community
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Q1) A community psychologist would be responsible for diagnosing and treating those of lower socioeconomic status.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following distinguishes community psychology from clinical psychology EXCEPT
A) community psychologists stress the interdependence of the individual, family, and community.
B) community psychology takes an ecological approach.
C) community psychologists focus on treating groups rather than individuals.
D) community psychologists encourage the use of social support groups.
E) community psychology focuses on prevention.
Q3) Community psychology had its roots in
A) clinical psychology.
B) sociological medicine.
C) organizational psychology.
D) developmental psychology.
E) ecological perspective.
Q4) Highlight the three major goals of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures project.
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Chapter 19: Mental Disorder and the Law
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Q1) The discretionary approach to violence risk assessment is __________, whereas the nondiscretionary approach is __________.
A) actuarial; clinical
B) flexible and idiographic ; objective and consistent
C) mechanistic ; informal
D) objective and consistent ; intuitive and flexible
E) algorithmic; heuristic
Q2) Which of the following most closely approximates the "typical" Review Panel Applicant as identified by research conducted in British Columbia? (Gray, et al., 1985)
A) a male over 30 years of age, educated with few problems with work
B) a male under 30 years of age, uneducated, unskilled, presence of memory deficits
C) a male under 30 years of age, problems with work, school and parents, presence of mental retardation and epilepsy
D) a male under 30 years of age, transferred from another institution, problems with alcohol abuse, schizophrenic tendencies
E) a male under 30 years of age, uneducated, unskilled, presence of mental retardation
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