A Client Diagnosed with DID Switches Personalities When Confronted with Destructive

question 1

Multiple Choice

A client diagnosed with DID switches personalities when confronted with destructive behavior. The nurse recognizes that this dissociation serves which function?

• A) It is a means to attain secondary gain.
• B) It is a means to explore feelings of excessive and inappropriate guilt.
• C) It serves to isolate painful events so that the primary self is protected.
• D) It serves to establish personality boundaries and limit inappropriate impulses.

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Definitions:

Misinformation Effect

The occurrence when an individual's memory of events is distorted due to information received after the event.

Encoding Failure

The phenomenon in which information does not enter the brain's long-term memory, typically resulting in the inability to recall this information later.

Event Imagined

The act of mentally visualizing or simulating a possible event in one's mind.

Memory Construction

The process by which our brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information, heavily influenced by our perceptions, beliefs, and experiences.