The characteristic in individuals with personality disorders that makes it most necessary for staff to
schedule frequent meetings is
a. flexibility and adaptability to stress.
b. ability to achieve true intimacy.
c. ability to evoke interpersonal conflict.
d. inability to develop trusting relationships.
C
Frequent team meetings are held to counteract the effects of the client's attempts to split staff and set
them against one another, causing interpersonal conflict. Option A: Clients with personality disorder
are inflexible and demonstrate maladaptive responses to stress. Options B and D: Clients with
personality disorder are usually unable to develop true intimacy with others and are unable to
develop trusting relationships. The problem with trust exists but is not the characteristic that requires
frequent staff meetings.
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