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SAMPLE QUESTION: Kaya is a 23-year-old salesperson who tried for 3 years to lose weight. Her physician prescribed amphetamines but cautioned her about the possibility that she might become dependent on them. She did begin to lose weight, but she also discovered that she liked the extra energy and good feelings the diet pills caused. When Kaya returned to her doctor after having lost the desired weight, she asked for a refill of her prescription to help her maintain her new figure. When he re...

SAMPLE QUESTION: What impact does culture have on the development and maintenance of sexual dysfunctions? Do you think the popular media have a positive or negative impact on attitudes regarding sexual behavior?

SAMPLE QUESTION: Compare and contrast anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. What are the main similarities and differences? Do you think that either disorder is common among the youth?

SAMPLE QUESTION: Bipolar disorder can have a devastating impact on family relationships. Is there anything about the behavior of bipolar patients (especially during a manic episode) that might make it particularly difficult for a spouse to understand and accept the persons behavior as being part of a psychological disorder (rather than simply bad judgment)?

SAMPLE QUESTION: How do patients with somatization disorders cause special difficulty for primary-care physicians? What makes them especially hard to treat? SAMPLE ANSWER: People with somatization disorder tend to be extremely sensitive to their symptoms and to certain things in most cases. As a result, their perception of the insufficiency of their medical assessment causes primary-care physicians to struggle while dealing with them, particularly when they refuse to acknowledge their ...

SAMPLE QUESTION: Describe the features of trichotillomania that are similar to those of anxiety disorders and the features that are similar to those of obsessive-compulsive disorders. SAMPLE ANSWER: Restlessness, anxiousness, tension, and stress are both indicators of trichotillomania and anxiety. Trichotillomania is also characterized by the recurring pulling out of one's own hair. People suffering from OCD, primarily body dysmorphic disorder, have the tendency to remove body hair th...

Sample Question: Sherry paraded into the party drunk and continued to drink throughout the night. Laughing and giggling, she flirted with many of the men and to two of them expressed her "deep affection." Twice during the evening she disappeared for almost half an hour, each time with a different man. After a violent argument with one of them, because he took "too long" to get her a drink, she locked herself into the bathroom and attempted to swallow a bottle of aspirin. Her friends enco...