Author Question: Dr. Smith specializes in working with clients who have personality disorders. According to the ... (Read 54 times)

sabina · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Dr. Smith specializes in working with clients who have personality disorders. According to the DSM-5, to make a diagnosis, his clients must have ____.

a. an impairment or problem that is unstable across time and situation
b. the presence of another mental disorder or a general medical condition
c. limited functioning that may be restricted to a specific episode of physical illness
d. a significant impairment or adaptive failure in a sense of self and ability to engage interpersonally

Question 2

Culture and ethnicity present challenges for diagnosing personality disorders because ____.

a. in their effort to avoid being culturally biased, therapists could miss certain symptoms
b. expressions of personality in one culture may differ from those in another culture
c. norms overlap in most cultures, and ethnicity is difficult to determine
d. diagnostic differences are rarely due to actual cultural differences