MODULE 45 - Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders

Which is the MOST likely reason that African women have been found to rate their ideal body type as being significantly closer to their actual shape as compared to European and North American women?

In much of Africa, plumpness is equated with prosperity and thinness can signal illness, poverty, and hunger.

Elaina is a 15-year-old adolescent who has become shockingly thin. She barely eats and, when she does, she compensates by exercising excessively. Elaina is MOST likely suffering from:

anorexia nervosa.

Calvin is extremely manipulative. He can look anyone in the eye and lie convincingly. His deceit often endangers the safety and well-being of those around him, but he is indifferent to their suffering as a result of his actions. Calvin's behavior BEST illustrates _____ personality disorder.

antisocial

Which personality disorder is matched with an incorrect description?

schizotypal personality disorder—self-focused, self-inflating