Candice Is Intensely Sad Most of the Day,has Trouble Concentrating,and

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Candice is intensely sad most of the day,has trouble concentrating,and has lost some of her appetite.She has started to skip most of her classes and can't maintain eye contact with others.She calls her college's mental health helpline and says,"I'm so worried about my grades that my stomach hurts.I don't know what to do." Based on the text's continuum from normal behavior to severely disordered behavior,Candice's status would be considered ____.

• A)normal
• B)moderately disordered
• C)psychological disorder,less severe
• D)psychological disorder,more severe

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Definitions:

Freudian Slips

Mistakes in speech that are theorized to unconsciously reveal something hidden in the speaker's mind, according to psychoanalytic theory.

Hypnosis

A trance-like state of focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and increased responsiveness to suggestion, often used for therapeutic purposes.

Topographic Model

Freud’s original model of personality structure, in which personality is divided into three different levels of awareness.

Preconscious

In Freud’s topographic model, the part of personality that contains thoughts that can be brought into awareness with little difficulty.