Personality Disorders

1.What is personality?

2.What is temperament?

3.What is character?

4.What is a personality disorder?

5.What is ego-syntonic?

6. What are the three clusters which comprise the ten personality disorders?

7.What are the three personality disorders from Cluster A? What do they have in common?

8. What are the four personality disorders in Cluster B? What do they have in common?

9. What are the three personality disorders in Cluster C? What do they have in common?

10.What are some concomitant disorders that often accompany personality disorders?

Why do you think these might be present?

11.How would you teach a person to relax?

12.What are some nursing interventions to address the problem of impulse control and the risk for suicide and/or self-mutilation?

13.How would you make a no harm contract with the borderline personality disordered client?

14.Give five examples of behaviors that might be manipulative. Name one intervention for each behavior.