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Describe what is meant by the term mental disorder in your text. Offer one example of a particular mental disorder and explain how the three major categories of symptoms are manifest in that particular example.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The deliberate production of physical or psychological symptoms for some external motivation describes
 
  a. malingering.
  b. psychosomatic illness.
  c. Munchhausen syndrome.
  d. factitious disorder by proxy.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Student responses should include
- a mental disorder is a group of emotions, cognition, or behavioral symptoms that cause significant distress or problems in functioning (examples of particular mental disorders may vary, but should describe the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral symptoms relevant to the example; for instance, if a student offered the example of depression as a particular mental disorder, then emotional symptoms might include feeling extreme sadness, cognitive symptoms might include persistent thinking about past failures, and behavioral symptoms might include lethargy)

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