A Diagnosis of a Mental Health Disorder Requires Which of the Following

question 31

Multiple Choice

A diagnosis of a mental health disorder requires which of the following in the DSM 5?

• A) Co-occurrence of symptoms
• B) Causing dysfunction that causes harm
• C) Causes impairment
• D) All of the above

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Definitions:

Electra Complex

A psychoanalytic theory describing a girl's sense of competition with her mother for the affection and attention of her father.

Psychosexual Development

Freud's theory of childhood development that focuses on how parents manage their children's sexual and aggressive drives in the first few years is crucial for healthy personality development.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity.