DSM-5 Disorders ASWB LMSW Exam QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Paranoid Personality Disorder - Correct Answers ✅Odd and Eccentric Behavior (A) Non-delusional paranoia Characterized by rational suspicions and mistrust of others Very pervasive across all their different domains -Always suspecting with no real sufficient basis that others are trying to exploit, deceive, or harm them Preoccupied with the loyalty of friends, colleagues, associates Always thinking people are out to get them Read deep into messages and remarks as if they are persecutory against them Often hold grudges against what they perceive as insults View the world as hostile and out to get them e.g. worried about fidelity of partner 1 / 4
DSM-5 Disorders ASWB LMSW Exam QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Schizoid Personality Disorder - Correct Answers ✅Odd & eccentric (A) Ego-syntonic SchizOID = AvOIDant Lack an interest in social relationships Loners but don't necessarily feel lonely because they prefer this flat affect, emotionally cold, No point in sharing time with others Lack of awareness, no longing to connect - no interest lack of sexual desire indifferent to opinions of others 2 / 4
DSM-5 Disorders ASWB LMSW Exam QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) No belief or trust that anyone is going to help them Common to have some depression due to isolation Pervasive over the course of their life, pattern of behavior Schizotypal Personality Disorder - Correct Answers ✅odd & eccentric (A) Thought to be almost a precursor to schizophrenia Characterized by eccentric, odd behaviors and thinking -A little bit "off" -E.g. Believe in aliens -They can have ideas of reference (e.g. thinking a news headline is directed toward them) -May have magical thinking -May think they have a 6th sense or bizarre fantasies -Irrational beliefs Inappropriate or constricted affect 3 / 4
DSM-5 Disorders ASWB LMSW Exam QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) -Unusual perceptual experiences -Paranoid ideation -Extreme social anxiety Often they lack close friends or dress bizarrely May have some paranoid ideation but they haven't had a psychotic episode!! - this is what separates them from schizophrenia!!Histrionic Personality Disorder - Correct Answers ✅Dramatic-Erratic Behavior (B) Pervasive attention-seeking behavior Wants to be the center of attention Known for the seductive behavior -Possibly seductive dress as well Rapid shifting and shallow expression of emotion Use of physical appearance
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