Practise explaining diagnostic criteria for impulse control disorders with CAIE Psychology AS questions and mark schemes.
Kleptomania can be assessed using the Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS).
State one question used on the K-SAS.
State one question used on the K-SAS.
Syllabus 1.3.1 measure of impulse control disorders: Kleptomania Symptom Assessment Scale (K-SAS).
Award 1 mark for partial answer.
Award 2 marks for full answer.
Definitive answer:
1 If you had urges to steal during the past WEEK, on average, how strong were your urges?
During the past WEEK,
2 how many times did you experience urges to steal?
3 how many hours (add up hours) were you preoccupied with your urges to steal?
4 how much were you able to control your urges?
5 how often did thoughts about stealing come up?
6 approximately how many hours (add up hours) did you spend thinking about stealing?
7 how much were you able to control your thoughts of stealing?
8 on average, how much tension or excitement did you have shortly before you committed a theft? If you did not actually steal anything, please estimate how much anticipatory tension or excitement you believe you would have experienced, if you had committed a theft.
9 on average, how much excitement and pleasure did you feel when you successfully committed a theft? If you did not actually steal, please estimate how much excitement and pleasure you believe you would have experienced if you had committed a theft.
10 how much emotional distress (mental pain or anguish, shame, guilt, embarrassment) has your stealing caused you?
11 how much personal trouble (relationship, financial, legal, job, medical or health) has your stealing caused you?
12 how many times did you steal?
NOTE: marks awarded for 'closed question responses' i.e. scale to answer question. See attached.