Review the Case Study of Marvin. Using the medical illness you choose to write about in this unit’s first discussion, respond to the following:

• How would this specific medical condition or illness be likely to impact or interact with Marvin’s described anxiety symptoms and obsessive-compulsive symptoms?
• How would you sort out (understand) the differential impacts of the two conditions (obsessive-compulsive disorder, as opposed to the medical condition you chose)?
• Would you still make a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder if you found that Marvin also suffered from this disorder?
• How do you differentiate Marvin’s obsessive-compulsive symptoms between the related diagnoses of:
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

Defend your answer.

Record the diagnosis you would give Marvin if he clearly displays this medical condition in addition to his anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Review the Case Study Response Guide to assist you with this discussion

Books:

Pearson Education. (2017). MyPsychLab for abnormal psychology (17th ed.) [Access card]. Boston, MA. Pearson. ISBN: 9781323615799.

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Kilpatrick, D. G., Resnick, H. S., Milanak, M. E., Miller, M. W., Keyes, K. M., & Friedman, M. J. (2013). National estimates of exposure to traumatic events and PTSD prevalence using DSM-IV and DSM‐5 criteria. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 26(5), 537–547.

Koerner, K., Kohlenberg, R. J., & Parker, C. R. (1996). Diagnosis of personality disorder: A radical behavioral alternative. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(6), 1169–1176.