EPPP Psychology

Category - Assessment and Diagnosis

Cultural idioms of distress:
  1. Refers to explanatory models that members of a culture use
  2. Are used by members of different cultures to express distress
  3. Are clusters of symptoms and attributions that co-occur among individuals from a particular culture
  4. Are the ways that cultural groups experience, understand, and communicate suffering
Explanation
Answer: B - Cultural idioms of distress are used by members of different cultures to express distress.
All answer choices explain various aspects of cultural concepts of distress but the second option is the only one that correctly describes the concept “cultural idioms of distress” as defined by the DSM-5.
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