Adjustment Disorders and Disorders of Impulse

A patient repeatedly fails to resist impulses to steal objects, subsequently giving them away or secretly returning them. Which diagnosis matches this pattern?

In DSM-5, adjustment disorders are grouped under which category?

A patient diagnosed with adjustment disorder has academic inhibition as the predominant manifestation. Which listed clinical subtype best matches this presentation?

For adjustment disorder, the maladaptive reaction must begin within what interval after the onset of an identifiable psychosocial stressor?

In disorders of impulse control, how does the sense of tension typically change before committing the act?

Which combination of factors is identified in the aetiology of adjustment disorders?

Which proposed explanation for compulsive gambling relates it to mood pathology?

What is the treatment of choice for adjustment disorder?

Which pattern of parental discipline is listed as a predisposing factor for problematic gambling?

Which attitude toward money is described in individuals with problematic gambling?

Adjustment disorders result from maladaptive reactions to which type of precipitating factor?

Which potentially life-threatening complication is explicitly associated with pathological gambling?

What is the central task of crisis intervention in the treatment of adjustment disorders?

A patient repeatedly fails to resist an act, experiences increasing tension beforehand, and feels gratification while performing it. Which category of disorder does this pattern characterize?

What pattern of fire-setting is specified as a feature of pyromania?

Which behavioral pattern is described in the clinical picture of pyromania?

A person deliberately sets fires repeatedly. Which additional finding is consistent with pyromania?

Which sequence of emotional experiences accompanies stealing in kleptomania?

Which pair of conditions, when responsible for stealing, precludes a diagnosis of kleptomania?

Which treatment for kleptomania is described as the only treatment reasonably well documented in the literature?

Which complex is proposed to dominate the psychodynamic etiology of kleptomania?

Which description of the stolen objects characterizes kleptomania?

Which psychotic disorder is explicitly included in the differential diagnosis of kleptomania?

Which psychotherapeutic approach is specifically reported as successful in some cases of fire setting?

Which treatment has been used by most behavioural researchers treating fire setters?

A patient has sudden, discrete episodes of losing control of aggressive impulses. With little provocation, he hits strangers and throws furniture. Which diagnosis matches these essential features?

In Freud’s psychoanalytic interpretation, fire setting represents which of the following?

Which disorder is characterized by deliberate and purposeful fire-setting on more than one occasion?

Which intervention is explicitly listed as a treatment for impulse disorders?

A patient has sudden, discrete episodes of uncontrolled aggression resulting in serious assault or destruction of property with little or no provocation. Which diagnosis best fits this presentation?

Which symptoms may signal an impending aggressive episode?

What is the relationship between the degree of aggression during the described episodes and the precipitating psychosocial stressor?

Which pattern of impulsivity and aggressiveness is described between the aggressive episodes?