Borderline Personality Disorder Post-Test
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- An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment is a definition of:
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Mental Illness
- A Personality Disorder
- Dual Diagnosis
- Which of the following is listed as a criterion for borderline personality disorder?
- Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation
- Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations
- Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
- Suggestibility, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances
- All of the following are criteria for borderline personality except:
- Unstable sense of self
- Pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships
- Urgently seeking another close relationship as a source of care and support when a close relationship ends
- Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood
- Borderline personality disorder is a disorder characterized by:
- Manipulation
- Paranoia
- Fear of abandonment
- Denial
- When assessing the client diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, it especially important to assess for:
- Paranoia
- Staff splitting
- Suicide risk
- Medication compliance
- The agenda of the client with borderline personality disorder is to:
- Find the one person who will understand how much pain s/he is in
- Manipulate people to get what s/he wants
- Be the center of attention
- Get others to assume responsibility for most major areas of life
- Which of the following disorders most commonly co-occurs with borderline personality disorder?
- Eating Disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Substance Use Disorders
- Depression
- When working with someone with borderline personality disorder, it’s necessary to validate and accept the client where they are but at the same time push for change. This is an example of a:
- Listening statement
- Dialectic
- Coincidence
- Distortion
- The most effective treatment for borderlinepersonality disorder, according to the research literature, is:
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- One prominent theory of the etiology of borderline personality disorder is that the person has suffered disrupted:
- Childhood
- Attachment
- Parenting
- Behavior
Total out of 10 ______
7 out of 10 (70%) is a passing grade
People Incorporated Training: Last updated 3.23.16