B) kleptomania. Janet is convinced that she has one or more serious illnesses. She has a preoccupation with diseases and misinterprets her normal bodily symptoms or functions as serious health problems. Her doctors say she is perfectly healthy and that her various symptoms are probably due to her imagination.
A) The night before his final exam, Bill is unable to sleep because he is worried about doing well on the test.
C) Seth is upset because his girlfriend told him she wants to start dating other guys, and he is afraid that she will break up with him.
A) The night before his final exam, Bill is unable to sleep because he is worried about doing well on the test. B) For the past several weeks, Mavis has been unable to concentrate at work because she keeps thinking that something terrible might happen to her son at school, even though she knows that he's safe.
Jason has periods when he feels extremely despondent (hopeless) for no apparent reason. During these periods, he finds it very difficult to be productive in his college classes or at his job. Jason's symptoms are characteristics of the DSM-5 category of:
Priscilla's husband insisted that she go to a mental health clinic when she was unable to explain or remember her frequent absences from home, phone calls from people that she claimed she had never heard of, and check stubs from checks that she couldn't remember writing.
persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, situation or activity. Specific phobia. excessive, intense and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity that is actively avoided or endured with marked anxiety. Social anxiety disorder.
OCD. disorder characterized by the presence of obsessions and compulsions. Electroconvulsive therapy. biomedical therapy that involves administering a brief burst of electric current to induce a seizure in the brain; used primarily in the treatment of major depressive disorder.
He has been fired from numerous jobs, usually because he got caught lying or repeatedly failed to show up for work. Howard has also been arrested twice for running various "con" games in which he swindles money out of unsuspecting tourists. He has been in and out of drug rehab for alcohol misuse several times. Howard's pattern of behaviors seems to fit which of the following disorders?
DSM-5 is of little practical value to clinical psychologists and other mental health workers because it merely describes the symptoms of mental illnesses and does not explain what causes them. Trevor's heart was pounding after he ran up three flights of stairs.
Jayne was in a fast food restaurant when a man walked in, drew a gun, and started shooting, killing two people before killing himself. Although Jayne was not injured in the shooting, she has since been unable to return to work. She can't seem to stop thinking about the event. It is most likely she is suffering from:
She checks everything seventeen times according to a strict ritual that she has worked out. Margaret is probably suffering from:
jason has periods when he feels extremely despondent for no apparent reason during these periods, he finds it very difficult to be productive in his college classes or at his job. Jason's symptoms are characterized by the DSM-IV-tR category of: