Which trait is a typical characteristic of Cluster A disorders Quizlet

The DSM-5 groups the 10 diagnoses into three clusters based on shared characteristics:
Cluster A: The odd and eccentric behaviors
includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders, which share the features of odd and eccentric behavior.
Cluster B: The dramatic and emotional behaviors
includes antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders, which share overdramatic, emotional, and erratic or unpredictable attitudes and behaviors.
Cluster C: The anxious and fearful behaviors
includes avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders, which share anxious and fearful behaviors.

A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and Excentricités of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and FIVE (5) or more:
1. Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
2. Odd believes or magical thinking that influence behavior and is inconsistent with some cultural norms (i.e. superstitiousness, beliefs in clairvoyance, telepathic, six sense - in children or adolescents: bazaar fantasies or preoccupations)
3. Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
4. Odd thinking and speech (ie- vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)
5. Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
6. Inappropriate or constricted affect
7. Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar
8. Lack of close friends or confidant other than first-degree relatives
9. Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiar Arity intends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self

Does not occur exclusively during the course of schizophrenia, a bipolar disorder, or depressive disorder with psychotic features, another psychotic disorder, or autism spectrum disorder

A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since the age 15, and THREE (3) or more:
1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability and aggressiveness as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
6. Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations
7. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being in different to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another

At least 18 years of age

There is evidence of conduct disorder with onset before 15 years of age

Not exclusively during schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self image, and affects, and marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and FIVE (5) or more:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment (but not suicide)
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self image or sense of self
4. Impulsivity and at least two areas that are potentially self damaging i.e. spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating but not suicide)
5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self mutilating behavior
6. Affective instability due to marked reactivity of mood (ie- intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (i.e. frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurring physical fights)
9. Transient, stress related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood - FIVE (5) or more:
1. Has grandiose sense of self importance (i.e. exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliant, beauty, or ideal love
3. Believe that he is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or highly status people (or institutions)
4. Requests excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement (i.e. unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his expectations)
6. Is interpersonally explicative (i.e. takes a vantage of others to achieve his own ends)
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8. Is often envious of others or believe that others are envious of him
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitude

A pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency, beginning by early adulthood - FOUR (4) or more:
1. Is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost
2. Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion
3. Is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships (not accounted for by obvious economic necessity)
4. Is overconscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values (not accounted for by cultural or religious identification)
5. Is unable to discard worn out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value
6. Is reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit do exactly his way of doing things
7. A Dobbs in miserly spending style towards those self and others; money is viewed as something to be ordered for future catastrophes
8. Shows rigidity and stubbornness

Which trait is a typical characteristic of cluster A disorders?

Which personality disorder is from cluster A?

Which personality disorder in cluster A has the highest prevalence rate?

What are the basic characteristics of the three clusters of personality disorders?