1.

Distinguish between the components of personality and the

components of personality disorder.

Components of personality, is when an individual is able to use

different methods which is more effective when interacting with
others. Personality disorder components is a disorder that impacts an
individual way of thinking, feeling or acting. A person with Personality
disorder may have another illness as well.

2. Describe the three clusters of personality disorders. What are the

key differences among the three?

The three clusters of personality disorder is, odd personality, Dramatic

personality and Anxious personality. The key different amongst them
all is that people with social anxiety disorder dear social
circumstances, and with the one diagnosed with personality disorder
fear close relationship disorder.

3. Compare and contrast the “odd” and the “dramatic” personality

disorders, specifically noting how these disorders impact
personal relationships.

Odd personality includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal disorder,

individual’s usual have eccentric or odd behavior, that are similar to
schizophrenia, like extreme suspicion, social withdrawal, and peculiar
ways of perceiving things or thinking. Its not as difficult as dramatic
personality is antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic
behavior. Individuals with dramatic personality is almost impossible to
have relationships with.

4. Anton is diagnosed with an “odd” personality disorder. Reducing

his distressing symptoms and improving his relationships would
improve the quality of his life. Describe barriers to Anton's
receiving helpful psychotherapy.

Barriers to Anton would be for him to feel inferior and distrust,

rebelling against his therapist. The therapist will aide Anton by
recognizing his deep wishes.
 5. Describe schizoid personality disorder. What are the explanations
for this disorder?

Schizoid personality disorder is when the individual is removed from

social relationships, and demonstrate little emotions, they also have
little feelings, and show no emotion towards criticism or praise.

6. One of the most common and certainly most troubling of the

personality disorders is antisocial personality disorder. Define
antisocial personality disorder. Then outline other behavior
patterns with which this disorder is associated. Finally, suggest
a course of treatment for someone suffering from this disorder.

Antisocial personality disorder is when an individual doesn’t value

human, animals or someone property. They may destroy thing, harm
people or animals, Treatment for antisocial disorder is cognitive-
behavior therapy. However, this approach haven’t been shown to be
too effective.

7. Outline the similarities and differences between antisocial and

borderline personality disorder. In addition, discuss treatment
options for both. Finally, discuss the reasons why these disorders
are resistant to psychotherapy.
Similarities between antisocial and borderline disorder is that they both are “
dramatic “ disorders, which causes the to have dramatic, erratic and emotional
behaviors. They differ because antisocial is labeled as “ psychopath or sociopath “
they completely disregard other people rights. They may show cruelty to animals,
people or destroy property. Borderline disorder is when an individual harm
themselves thinking that it will satisfy their emotional pain. They may cut or burn
themselves, find it hard to leave relationships, quickly feel rejected, have reoccurring
fears and try to avoid real or imaged separation. Treatment option for borderline
personality disorder could be cognitive-behavior methods and for borderline
specifically, DBT.Disorders are resistant to psychotherapy because it can impact
violate the client - therapists relationship. The therapist may find it difficult to
 empathize with the client dependency and angry, and challenging their way of
thinking

8. Explain the differences between the biosocial and the

developmental psychopathology explanations for borderline
personality disorder.
Biosocial is elaborated as an individual who don’t learn how to deal with their emotions
because of their parents teaching them not to express them, they go on to unaware of
how to deal with controlling and understanding emotional arousal which gives them
greater risk of this diagnosis and psychopathology explanation is similar to biosocial
view they believe internal and external factors can cause a person to develop borderline
personality disorder.

9. Describe a person with histrionic personality disorder and

explain how narcissistic personality disorder differs.
Histrionic disorder when a person is extremely emotional, and they continually seek
to be the center of attention. They us theatrical gestures and mannerism to express
events. They keep changing themselves to attract their audience, and constantly
dwell on approval or praise. They may exaggerate their illness and behave
provocatively. Narcissistic personality differs because these individuals feel no
empathy for others and usually find it easy making friends. They love taking
advantage of people to benefit themselves.

10. Compare the perspectives of a psychodynamic psychologist

with those of a cognitive-behavioral psychologist. How would
each explain the causes of histrionic and narcissistic personality
disorder?
Psychodynamic psychologist would describe histrionic as an individual who are
afraid of feeling abandon or unloved because as a child their parents were cold and
controlling. Cognitive-behavioral psychologist would view these individuals as self-
focused and emotional because their less aware of the world around them. They
 also believe that some individuals seek out others to help them because they are
helpless themselves.

11. How does a person with narcissistic personality disorder

differ from a young person who thinks highly of himself or herself
and posts selfies online?
A person with narcissistic and a young person who post selfies differ because not
everyone who take a huge amount of selfies is narcissistic. Young people have been
described as “seeking external validation of their self-worth “. Young people may
utilize selfies to express their interest, and artificial expression and create
meaningful narrative.

12. Describe avoidant personality disorder. What is this

disorder's relationship with social anxiety disorder?

Avoidant personality is individuals who are very uncomfortable in

social situations, they are extremely sensitive to negative evaluation
and fearful of being rejected. The similarities between social anxiety
and personality disorder is fear, humiliation and low confidence.

13. Describe dependent personality disorder. What is the key

difference between how people with avoidant personality
disorder and how people with dependent personality disorder
handle relationships?

Dependent personality is a person who fear to be separated, their

pervasive, and have an excessive need to be taken care of. The
difference between avoidant personality and dependent is that
avoidant personalities are uncomfortable and don’t like to be social
because of their fear of reject while dependent personalities rely on
individuals and fear for separation.
 14. How might multicultural factors influence the development
of borderline personality disorder?

Multicultural factors may influence the development of borderline

personality disorder because theorist think that cultural difference is a
factor in the development and diagnosis of the disorder.

15. What are some problems with using the DSM-5 to diagnose
personality disorders? Explain two alternatives to DSM-5
diagnoses that are receiving research attention today.

Some problems with DSM-5 is that they categories disorders instead of

using dimensions of personality. Two alternative is Dimensional
approach is dimensions and degree of dysfunction.