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sabina

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Which characteristic of individuals with personality disorders makes it most necessary for staff to schedule frequent meetings?
 
  a. Ability to achieve true intimacy
  b. Flexibility and adaptability to stress
  c. Ability to evoke interpersonal conflict
  d. Inability to develop trusting relationships

Question 2

A patient with borderline personality disorder self-inflicted wrist lacerations after gaining new privileges on the unit. The cause of the self-mutilation is probably related to:
 
  a. inherited disorder that manifests itself as an incapacity to tolerate stress
  b. use of projective identification and splitting to bring anxiety to manageable levels
  c. constitutional inability to regulate affect, predisposing to psychic disorganization
  d. fear of abandonment associated with progress toward autonomy and independence



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Frequent team meetings are held to counteract the effects of the patient's attempts to split staff and set them against one another, causing interpersonal conflict. Patients with personality disorders are inflexible and demonstrate maladaptive responses to stress. They are usually unable to develop true intimacy with others and are unable to develop trusting relationships. Although problems with trust may exist, it is not the characteristic that requires frequent staff meetings.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Fear of abandonment is a central theme for most patients with borderline personality disorder. This fear is often exacerbated when patients with borderline personality disorder experience success or growth.




sabina

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Reply 2 on: Jul 19, 2018
Wow, this really help


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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