a) Kaleb believes people are watching him from the woods across the street from

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a) Kaleb believes people are watching him from the woods across the street from his house. He also hears voices telling him to board up all of his windows and then cover the boarded windows with plastic wrap to keep the FBI and KGB from spying on him. Further, he believes that soon the president is going to bring him to Washington D.C. as a foreign policy expert, despite the fact that he has never left the United States.

b) Chen is standing in a shopping mall when suddenly and without warning he begins having difficulty breathing, he begins to tremble and sweat, then his heart starts pounding and he feels nauseous and very dizzy. He feels like he might be having a heart attack right there in the mall. Although in different situations, these sorts of Lab Session 8 Name Lab Day and Time Instructor 60 symptoms have occurred on enough occasions that Chen fears that he will feel this way again in the future.

c) Jamie lives in the Bay area of California and is terrified of bridges. When she needs to travel from Oakland, where she lives and works, to San Francisco she avoids taking the bridge and drives all the way around, even though this adds a significant amount of time to her travels. She recently turned down a job promotion that she really wanted because the new position would require her to travel from one side of the bay to the other several times a day. Further, she frequently refuses to go to family events when she finds out that the person driving insists on taking a bridge to their destination.?
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A) Select from the following disorders in deciding which disorders are being described in the above case scenarios AND B) Remember to justify how you arrived at your decision Generalized Anxiety Disorder Specific Phobia Social Anxiety Disorder (Previously Social Phobia) Panic Disorder Agoraphobia . Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Dissociative Amnesia Dissociative Identity Disorder . Major Depression Bipolar Disorder .Schizophrenia Autism Spectrum Disorder Anorexia Nervosa . Bulimia Nervosa Binge-Eating Disorder

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a) schizophrenia as kaleb is experiencing auditory hallucinations which are a subtype of schizophrenia

b) social anxiety disorder as it is the fear of social interactions visits etc

c) specific phobia as she has a phobia of bridges as per the symptoms and it is towards a specific stimulus

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