According to John Livesley from the University of British Columbia there are three types of life tasks that are important and failure with any one of these tasks warrants a personality disorder diagnosis.
Which of the following is not one of the three tasks?
a) The formation of stable, integrated and coherent representations of self and others
b) The development of the capacity for intimacy and positive affiliation with other people
c) Self-regulatory skills which permits for a balanced approach to cope with the stress of life
d) Functioning adaptively in society by engaging in prosocial and cooperative behaviours
Question 2
Low reliability for a personality disorder suggests:
a) People with the disorder did not, in fact, have problems functioning normally in daily life.
b) Clinicians diagnosing patients had difficulty agreeing on whether a patient had the disorder or not.
c) People with the disorder at one point in time had recovered by the follow-up assessment.
d) People with the disorder often had other personality disorders as well.
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