If a Client Has a Personality Disorder, It

question 51

Multiple Choice

If a client has a personality disorder, it:

• A)will be readily apparent in the first session
• B)can be readily assessed with the NEO-PI-3
• C)will become slowly evident through recurrent themes (e.g., relationship difficulties) and through the client's interactions with the counselor
• D)is typically associated with legal difficulties and counselors should ask clients about their legal record in the first session.

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Definitions:

Emotion-based Coping Strategy

Approaches to managing stress that involve reducing the emotional distress caused by a situation, rather than directly addressing the problem.

Positive Reappraisal Strategy

A cognitive coping mechanism involving reinterpretation of a situation in order to see it in a more positive light or to extract positive meaning from it.

Primary Appraisal

Describes the initial evaluation process where a person decides whether a stimulus is a threat, beneficial, or irrelevant to their well-being.

Distress

Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain, whether emotional or physical, that affects an individual's level of functioning or well-being.