A Tendency to Communicate Distress Through Physical Symptoms and to Pursue

question 88

Multiple Choice

A tendency to communicate distress through physical symptoms and to pursue medical help for the symptoms is

• A)somatoform.
• B)dissociative.
• C)somatization.
• D)dissociation.

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Definitions:

Malthusian Theorem

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Mortality Rates

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