In the ongoing debate about the nature and etiology of childhood-onset schizophrenia, which
of the following is rarely argued by clinicians today:
a. Schizophrenia is a disorder with a unifying underlying cause but multiple manifestations.
b. Schizophrenia should not be listed as a single psychological disorder in the DSM-IV-TR
because it is actually several different disorders.
c. The validity of the one-set-of-diagnostic-criteria-fits-all-ages approach to diagnosis is
questionable.
d. In a significant number of cases, schizophrenia is caused by cold, unresponsive, and
rejecting mothers.
e. Each of these positions is still argued by a majority of clinicians today.
D
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Mark rates his personality as ambitious, competitive, affectionate, cheerful, and soft-spoken. Mark's responses indicate a(n)
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