Jill who is 10 repeatedly surfs the Internet late at night although her parents have forbidden
her to do so. She waits until they are asleep and then sneaks onto the computer.
She sends
threatening messages to other girls in her class and has spread damaging rumors on the
Internet about her classmates. When confrontedabout this behavior, Jill becomes hostile and
destroys her stuffed animals. Which one of the following diagnoses best fits Jill's behaviors?
a. Childhood-onset conduct disorder
b. ADHD
c. Temper tantrums
d. Oppositional defiant disorder
a. Childhood-onset conduct disorder
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a. physical, psychological, and social health b. stress and coping, health behaviors, and issues in health care c. innate traits, current state, and modifiable behavior d. infectious disease, chronic disease, and psychological disease
A person is involved with short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Which of the following is not likely to happen during one of those sessions?
A. identifying and discussing problems B. attempting to resolve the client's conflicts C. the therapist taking a less directive role in identifying the patient's problems D. working through transference
The category of tests that includes sentence completion, drawing tests, ambiguous stimuli identification, and the TAT is called
a. arbitrary testing. b. projective testing. c. objective personality testing. d. subjective patterning.
With regard to science and psychology,
a. science is concerned with the physical realm, and psychology with human behavior. b. psychology is a tool of science. c. science is only concerned with the collection of information, psychology with analysis of information. d. science is a tool of psychology.