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Rob is obsessively clean and orderly. He complains bitterly about his roommates who are sloppy and disorganized. He stopped dating, Nancy, because she had a cat and cat hair was on her furniture. He is also very tight with his money. His girl-friends complain that he is stingy.  He is precise about his dress and grooming. His mother states, “I love my son, but he is so obstinate. He is also extremely pedantic and finicky. My present husband tells me that he objects most to Rob’s passive-aggressive behaviors. Freudians would say that Rob has what?

What type of fault is this?

Mr. Crouch is a 73 year old man who has developed rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes. In these diseases the body begins to reject its own tissues. This is a problem with what?

Dr. Moore retired from the university with plans to travel to Europe and Asia. After several tours and an extended stay in Rome to finish a book on Italian literature, he came home to Starkville and became depressed and developed a drinking problem. Dr. Moore decided that his “dream retirement” was not working so he decided to change careers and become a clinical psychologist. When Dr. Moore entered graduate school for his doctoral studies at Stanford, he began which stage of retirement?  

With the extent and type of government surveillance, plus our smartphones and cars emitting information about where we are, we may be entering a__________.

Mr. Thompson, a 93 year old man, fought in the U.S, Marines in World War II in Germany and throughout Europe. He states that he vividly remembers December 7, 1941. “I went right out that next week and enlisted in the Marines It was the defining moment in my life. President Roosevelt came on the radio and announced that________________.”

What is the name of the mission that arrived at Jupiter in 2016?

Dana’s son, Mitchell, was killed in a motorcycle accident four months ago. For the first several months after the funeral, Dana as in shock and yet continued perform her job and participate in all her previous daily and weekly activities without stopping. Her earlier calm has given way to irritability with her family and a tendency to overreact to even the smallest annoyances. She is frustrated with her other children. She has stopped going to her support group because they exasperate her. She no longer cries, but becomes cross at the smallest incident. She has stopped going to the church services that were previously supportive, because “I blame God for this.” Kubler-Ross would likely say Dana is in which stage of grief and loss?  

Nina is a woman who is a leader in her community, church and at work. She takes the time to mentor other women and girls. She is a very productive and active person who is committed to her parents and her children. A year ago, her father died of a heart attack. Nina comes to you with unresolved grief over the death of her father and her own feelings of mortality. From Erickson’s model you would estimate Nina is which of the following ages?

The group’s __________ leader serves to reduce conflict.