Which Publication Contains the Official Criteria for Diagnosing Mental Disorders

question 66

Multiple Choice

Which publication contains the official criteria for diagnosing mental disorders?

• A)Physicians' Desk Reference
• B)Syndromes of Mental Disorders
• C)Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
• D)American Psychiatric Association Guidelines for Diagnosis

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Definitions:

Expressive Aphasia

A language disorder caused by damage to the brain that affects a person's ability to produce coherent speech and language.

Prosopagnosia

A specific inability to recognize faces, even very familiar ones, with intact recognition of other objects.

Arbitrariness

The lack of any necessary or natural relationship between a sign's physical form and its meaning.

Discreteness

The characteristic of data or systems that have distinct, separate values or components.