Author Question: All of the following are potential dangers of assigning a diagnostic label EXCEPT a. the patient ... (Read 51 times)

xclash · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

All of the following are potential dangers of assigning a diagnostic label EXCEPT

a. the patient may lose self-esteem.
b. the patient's prognosis (future course of the disorder) becomes difficult to predict.
c. family and friends may see the patient as the disorder rather than an individual.
d. healthcare workers may see the patient as the disorder rather than an individual.

Question 2

All of the following are criticisms of DSM-5 EXCEPT

a. It emphasized reliability, sometimes at the expense of validity.
b. It emphasized a biological perspective, sometimes at the expense of the human aspect of psychological disorders
c. It is too similar to previous, flawed nosological systems.
d. Its diagnostic categories are still too fuzzy at the edges, which contributes to frequent comorbid diagnoses.