Personality Test Borderline Personality 2

Question 1

'Splitting' in BPD refers to:

Accepted Answer

Seeing people as entirely good or entirely bad with no middle ground

Answer

Splitting is a defense mechanism where the person cannot integrate positive and negative qualities, seeing things as black or white.

Question 2

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was developed by:

Accepted Answer

Marsha Linehan

Answer

Marsha Linehan, who later disclosed her own BPD diagnosis, developed DBT in the late 1980s specifically for chronically suicidal patients.

Question 3

The biosocial theory of BPD, proposed by Linehan, suggests the disorder results from:

Accepted Answer

Biological emotional sensitivity interacting with an invalidating environment

Answer

Linehan's biosocial model posits that BPD arises when biologically sensitive individuals grow up in environments that invalidate their emotions.

Question 4

Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociation is listed in DSM-5 as a criterion for which personality disorder?

Accepted Answer

Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer

BPD criterion 9 includes stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms that are transient.

Question 5

How does BPD prevalence compare between clinical and general populations?

Accepted Answer

BPD affects approximately 1–2% of the general population but 10–20% of psychiatric patients

Answer

BPD prevalence is approximately 1–2% in the general US population but rises to 10–20% in inpatient psychiatric settings.

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