One Reason Why Psychiatrists Today Tend to Diagnose More Problems

question 60

Multiple Choice

One reason why psychiatrists today tend to diagnose more problems as "disorders" than they did in the past is that today

• A) HMOs pay for more treatment if the person has a diagnosis.
• B) the stigma of mental illness is much weaker than in the past.
• C) therapists are in close agreement on how to treat various disorders.
• D) research has documented detailed similarities between abnormal behaviors and medical illnesses.

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