The Nursing Instructor Is Teaching About the DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria

question 13

Multiple Choice

The nursing instructor is teaching about the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for depersonalization-derealization disorder. Which student statement indicates a need for follow-up instruction?

• A) "Clients with this disorder can experience emotional and/or physical numbing and a distorted sense of time."
• B) "Clients with this disorder can experience unreality or detachment with respect to their surroundings."
• C) "During the course of this disorder, individuals or objects are experienced as dreamlike, foggy, lifeless, or visually distorted."
• D) "During the course of this disorder, the client is out of touch with reality and is impaired in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning."