Author Question: Betsy has had persistent free floating anxiety for about 9 months. She finds herself worrying ... (Read 99 times)

danielfitts88 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Betsy has had persistent free floating anxiety for about 9 months. She finds herself worrying
about her children, her career, her marriage, and her friends even though nothing appears to be
wrong with any of them.

She is best described as suffering from a(n) ______ disorder.
a. panic c. generalized anxiety
b. phobic d. obsessive-compulsive

Question 2

The diathesis-stress model would predict that ______.

a. the severity of sexual abuse would be correlated with the likelihood of development of
dissociative identity disorder
b. abused children who develop dissociative identity disorder would have a personality
proneness for the disorder
c. the development of dissociative identity disorder in sexually abused children would
depend on the supportiveness of the child's environment
d. dissociative identity disorder would only occur in sexually abused children who kept the
abuse secret from everyone else