Question

To avoid the anxiety of attending a new school after moving across the country, Jacquan told his mother that he had a bad stomachache. After several days of missed school and a doctor’s visit with no diagnosis, Jacquan’s mother figured out what her son was doing. Which term describes Jacquan’s actions in trying to get out of school?

Answer 1

Answer: malingering

Explanation: malingering is an act of purposefully faking a psychological or physical disorder because you want to achieve a particular thing example is the faking of the stomach pain by jacquan so that he will not go to school. Malingering is quite similar to psychiatrist disorder but different entirely from factitious disorder because the person is faking that particular action. The actions portrayed by that person will sometimes be very easy to detect and sometimes difficult and most times not detected at all.