Recent Research on Comorbidity Led to Diagnostic Systems That

question 61

Multiple Choice

Recent research on comorbidity led to diagnostic systems that:

• A)designate discrete categories of disorders that represent distinct types of pathology.
• B)use a dimensional approach to diagnosis rather than the previous systems, which attempts to identify discrete categories of disorders.
• C)limit the accommodation of cultural variations in the expression and characterization of disorders.
• D)deemphasize the relationships between psychopathologies and make them more distinct from each other.

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