What Weakness Has Been Identified with Using a Sole Categorical

question 28

Multiple Choice

What weakness has been identified with using a sole categorical approach to diagnosing personality disorders?

• A) Categorical diagnoses are based on arbitrary diagnosis thresholds and use an all-or-nothing classification.
• B) Diagnosticians show low reliability in being able to diagnose whether a client has a personality disorder.
• C) Personality disorders seem to be based on professional opinion.
• D) The boundaries used to determine normal personality features make it too difficult to distinguish between appropriate and pathological levels of personality traits

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Definitions:

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