Author Question: Fifteen-year-old Ashley is experiencing panic attacks on a daily basis, sometimes in response to ... (Read 131 times)

JGIBBSON · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Fifteen-year-old Ashley is experiencing panic attacks on a daily basis, sometimes in response to attempting to go to school and sometimes while she is at home in her room. Ashley may meet the criteria for which disorder?

a. OCD
b. anxiety disorder
c. panic disorder
d. social anxiety

Question 2

What is the primary difference between factitious disorder and malingering?

a. The symptoms in factitious disorder may be deliberately inducedwhile those in malingering are faked.
b. The symptoms in factitious disorder are not produced intentionally, whereas they are in malingering.
c. Both involve faking symptoms but those with factitious disorder are usually more successful than malingerers.
d. The feigning of symptoms in factitious disorder is motivated by economic gain, whereas the motivation in malingering is to get attention.