Defining Psychological Disorders
Gender identity disorder is a controversial diagnosis because:
it seems to occur only in North America
only people who have undergone psychoanalysis are ever diagnosed with it
people who โsufferโ from it do not regard their feelings or behaviours as a disorder
it has a prevalence rate of zero
people who โsufferโ from it do not regard their feelings or behaviours as a disorder
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BPD is more common in ________; APD is more common in ________.A. uneducated people, educated people
B. children, adolescents
C. extraverts, introverts
D. women, men
A criticism of the DSM is that it:
A. hasnโt changed since the 1950s
B. is not actually used by therapists, insurers etc
C. only includes a handful of disorders
D. is primarily focused on Western illness
Comorbidity occurs when:
A. several members of a family have the same mental health issue
B. an individual spends too much time thinking about death
C. a person suffers from more than one disorder at the same time
D. nothing can be done to prevent a disorder from occurring
Frotteurism is:
A. a type of schizophrenia
B. an eating disorder
C. a paraphilia
D. a somatoform disorder
Which of the following was NOT included in the Canadian Mental Health Survey:
A. depression
B. obesity
C. drug abuse
D. anxiety
A person who worries excessively about having a serious illness is most likely to be diagnosed as suffering from:
A. borderline personality disorder
B. conversion disorder
C. hypochondria
D. mitochondria
DSM stands for:
A. diagnostic and scientific manual of mental disorders
B. diagnostic and statistical manual of major disorders
C. diagnostic and scientific manual of major disorders
D. diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
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