The Dysfunctional Family

The bonus for finishing this Psychology Internet Quiz is that the Johnson's will make you feel your family is normal. Normal? What's that?

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Mable Johnson, mother of the Johnson clan, is a pyromaniac. Setting fires interests her more than anything including her dysfunctional family. Fires can be so gratifying! What are some of the symptoms of pyromania?

Mable's son, 14 year old Jimmy, likes to dress in his sister's clothes. According to the DSM IV on cross-gender identity, what are some of the tell-tale signs that Jimmy is devoping a serious disorder?

Mabel's Uncle Billy Bob has an eleven year old son who has recently developed Tourette's Disorder. The family would like to get him into a free study and treatment. See if the National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) has a clinical study which Billy Bob, Jr. can get into.

Jimmy's brother, Willie, steals from all of the local stores. Mable has had to go to K-Mart and Target to get John after he has been caught taking toys. Dannon Kindler, an expert on kleptomania, has written an article on it for Clinical Pharmacology. Name the disorders which Dannon Kindler suggests have a comorbidity to kleptomania. PubMed, at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=m will allow you to search Medline for this article.

Bubba, Mable's co-dependent husband, was brought up in a family of alcoholics where Bubba watched after his alcoholic parents and learned to cover up the alcohol use for fear of discovery. Is co-dependence a mental disorder? What are some of the symptoms Bubba might show?

Aunt Cecilia has multiple personalies. Sometimes she is a nine year old child, sometimes a swinging thirties, and other times a strict disciplinarian. She is clearly pregnant. How on earth is she going to raise a normal child?

What are some of the symptoms of Aunt Cecilia's disorder?

Aunt Cecilia's brother, Tim, has joined the Hare Krishna. What is this group and what is their philosophy?

Aunt Cecilia's sister, Sarah, is a beautiful girl. That is she used to be beautiful. One day, a movie producer stopped her on the street and asked her to be in his movie. She was thrilled but thought she better lose a few pounds. Now she's down to 75 pounds. The movie producer has changed his mind. Think of the disease(s) she might have and find out if she fits into the description by DSM IV. Is she going to die? What is a support group she and her family might join to help her?

I tried to tell Uncle George, Aunt Cecilia's husband, how excited I was about the baby. But, while we were talking, he suddenly fell asleep. He has been falling asleep like this for many years. The doctor diagnosed Uncle George as having narcolepsy. What are the chances of the baby inheriting his disorder?

Uncle George's son by his first marriage is presently serving prison time in the state prison as a sex offender. Can the treatment he is receiving rehabilitate him?

Senators Domenici and Wellstone spear-headed a bill which will be beneficial to the whole dysfunctional family mentioned above. What was it and when does it go into effect?

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