Which behaviors would indicate the need for further assessment to consider avoidant personality disorder?
1. Withholding of feelings and low self-esteem
2. Insistence on others conforming to own methods
3. Engaging in impulsive acts like unsafe sex
4. Initial charm dissolving into coldness and blaming others
ANS: 1
The symptoms in option 1 are indicative of avoidant behaviors. The symptoms in option 2 are more usual in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, while option 3 describes the behavior of someone with borderline personality disorder. The option 4 response describes some behavior commonly seen in antisocial personality disorders.
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