The Dimensional Approach to Describing Personality Disorders

question 124

Multiple Choice

The dimensional approach to describing personality disorders

• A) has been incorporated into DSM-IV.
• B) assumes that people can reliably be placed into nonoverlapping diagnostic categories.
• C) would describe personality disorders in terms of variations in a limited number of continuous personality traits.
• D) provides a much more complete description of the dynamics of personality disorders.

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