Question

After talking about feeling unhappy for several weeks, Claudia sees a psychologist. Afterwards, she states that she was given a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of a psychological disorder, which means that her experiences of being unhappy __________.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer would be her experiences of being unhappy is associated with present distress or disability or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.

Explanation:

The DSM-IV-TR was organized into a five-part axial system. The first axis incorporated clinical disorders. The second axis covered personality disorders and intellectual disabilities. The remaining axes covered medical, psychosocial, environmental, and childhood factors functionally necessary to provide diagnostic criteria for health care assessments.

The DSM-IV-TR characterizes a mental disorder as "a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual which is associated with present distress or disability or with a significant increased risk of suffering.

" It also notes "no definition adequately specifies precise boundaries for the concept of 'mental disorder' different situations call for different definitions". It states "there is no assumption that each category of mental disorder is a completely discrete entity with absolute boundaries dividing it from other mental disorders or from no mental disorder"