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Pedophilic, Exhibitionistic, Voyeuristic, and Frotteuristic Disorder diagnoses require:

Randy Amble is a 27-year-old man who has recurrent sexual fantasies involving young teen girls.He once ten years ago engaged a 9-year old neighbor in sexual relations.  He has never felt any personal distress or suffered any interpersonal difficulties or psychosocial impairment due to his fantasies regarding prepubescent girls.  Given this information, does he meet the DSM-5 criteria for Pedophilia? 

The researchers cited below examined the perceptions of 56 hypochondriacal patients regarding their risk of contracting various illnesses.  What differences were found between the hypochondriasis and control group regarding their perceived risk for contracting heart attack, stroke, cancer and senility?  Barsky, A., Ahern, D., Bailey, E., Saintfort, R., Liu, E., & Peekna, H.  (2001).  Hypochondriacal patients’ appraisal of health and physical risks.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(5), 783-787.

Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, sterotyped, or over-elaborate).  

Episodic positive symptoms of psychosis would be expected to occur with some regularity in all of the following DSM-5 conditions except:

Which of the following substances is least likely to produce hallucinations and paranoid delusions if consumed in high doses for prolonged periods of time?

Which of the following is not often referred to as a type of delusion?

Which of the following is a Dissociative Disorder with relatively fewer symptoms of functional amnesia as compared to the others in this category?

Which of the following terms represents an etiology model which hypothesizes that maximum risk of psychopathology occurs among genetically predisposed individuals who have been exposed to some major form of life adversity?

Causative factors that lead to the development and expression of a psychological disorder (e.g., why a disorder begins) are referred to by which of the following terms?