According to the text, why is it particularly difficult to diagnose kleptomania?
What will be an ideal response?
To make a diagnosis of kleptomania, clinicians must be unable to better account for the individual's stealing with another diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder, or bipolar disorder (in a manic episode). There is overlap among the symptoms of kleptomania and mood, anxiety, and other impulse-control disorders, making it particularly important that clinicians engage in a thorough process of differential diagnosis
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b. behavior is normal and your affect is abnormal. c. behavior is abnormal and your affect is normal. d. behavior and affect are normal.
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