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Joelle has episodes of binge eating that are beyond most people’s imagination—entire bags of cookies, whole loaves of bread, and two or three frozen pizzas all in one sitting. After these sessions, she feels horrible, and has a compulsion to make up for the binge somehow.  She can’t quite bring herself to induce vomiting, so she fasts for two or more days to make up for her binge. Joelle has symptoms consistent with

People with dissociative identity disorder often have

In people with somatic symptom disorders, there is a disruption occurring in communications between the ____ and the ____. for the first blank: brain, head, limbs, nervous system for the second blank: body, biology, brain, endocrine system

Elizabeth is amid a manic episode. Her mind seems to be racing so quickly that she can’t even express her thoughts because her mouth cannot keep up. Elizabeth is experiencing a symptom of mania known as

Severe depression and dysthymia are most highly comorbid with which other category of disorder?

Internal or biologically-based depression is called [1], and external or environmentally-based depression is called [2].  For the first blank: exogenous, genotypical, psychosocial, endogenous For the second blank: endogenous, psychosocial, genotypical, exogenous

Edward is in the midst of a major depressive episode. He has just learned that his best friend is going through a divorce and feels responsible for it, even though he had nothing to do with it. Which symptom of depression is this?

A 22-year-old woman hyperventilates every time she drives over a bridge and slows to a dangerously low speed. She tries to rationalize her reaction by explaining that she is just being cautious and protecting herself from traffic, but the hyperventilating and slow pace is dangerous. She realizes that this is irrational but is unable to control it. She becomes extremely anxious at the sight of a bridge, even when a passenger in the car, and worries for days before an car trip where she knows she will have to cross a bridge.

Betts has anorexia nervosa. Chelsea has bulimia nervosa. Who will most likely have the better prognosis?

When theorists focus on media models of thinness for women, stress from abuse and sexual harassment, poor recognition of achievements, and excessive attention to beauty and body shape, they are thinking about