Author Question: According to the DSM-IV-TR, ALL BUT WHICH of the following should be addressed in a cultural ... (Read 62 times)

SGallaher96 · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

According to the DSM-IV-TR, ALL BUT WHICH of the following should be addressed in a cultural formulation of a person's problem?

a. How strong is the person's cultural identity?
b. How does the person's culture explain the problem at hand?
c. How does the person's culture regard the proposed treatment?
d. All of the above should be included in a cultural formulation.

Question 2

Some individuals have suggested that there is gender bias in psychiatric diagnosis. According to the paper by Widiger and Spitzer described in your textbook, which of the following situations would necessarily demonstrate the existence of such bias?

a. if a disorder were found to be much more prevalent in one sex than in the other
b. if men and women presenting with the same cluster of symptoms were assigned different diagnosis
c. both of the above
d. neither of the above