One of Your Patients Is Suffering from a Severe Disorder

question 160

Multiple Choice

One of your patients is suffering from a severe disorder and nothing else has worked. Consequently, you recommend electroconvulsive therapy. Most likely, your patient was suffering from

• A) schizophrenia.
• B) dissociative identity disorder.
• C) an anxiety disorder.
• D) borderline personality disorder.
• E) depression.

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Definitions:

Self-Esteem

An individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth and capabilities.

Intergroup Bias

The tendency to favor one's own group over other groups in terms of judgment, preference, or treatment.

Task Conflict

Disagreements about the nature of the work to be done.

Relationship Conflict

Interpersonal tensions among individuals that have to do with their relationship per se, not the task at hand.