Which characteristic of personality disorders makes it most necessary for staff to schedule frequent team meetings in order to address the patient's needs and maintain a therapeutic milieu?
A) Ability to achieve true intimacy
B) Flexibility and adaptability to stress
C) Ability to provoke interpersonal conflict
D) Inability to develop trusting relationships

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Frequent team meetings are held to counteract the effects of the patient's attempts to split staff and set them against one another, causing interpersonal conflict. Patients with personality disorders are inflexible and demonstrate maladaptive responses to stress. They are usually unable to develop true intimacy with others and are unable to develop trusting relationships. Although problems with trust may exist, it is not the characteristic that requires frequent staff meetings.

Which Characteristic of Personality Disorders Makes It Most Necessary for Staff