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@Brianna17

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on: Jun 22, 2018
What are the key points to keep in mind when trying to distinguish factitious disorder from malingering?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is the basis for identifying members of a category using the prototypal approach found in the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic system?
 
  a) They must share all of the same symptoms.
   b) They will share some of the same symptoms.
   c) They exhibit the same degree of symptom severity.
   d) They exhibit none of the symptoms found in other categories.


Andromeda18

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

The judgment that a particular symptom is under voluntary control occasionally is made by excluding all other possible causes. However, this is not a foolproof method. When the clinician is not fully aware of the particular purpose for which the malingerer manufactures symptoms, the chances of a misdiagnosis increase. An act of malingering might, under certain circumstances, be considered adaptive (e.g., when prisoners fake illness), but factitious disorders are almost always seen in people with severe, lifelong personality disturbances.

Answer to Question 2

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