Which of the Following Helps Clinicians Provide a Differential Diagnosis

question 67

Multiple Choice

Which of the following helps clinicians provide a differential diagnosis between schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder?

• A) Voices heard in schizophrenia are often experience as arising from outside the person's head
• B) Schizophrenia does not include alters with different personalities, characteristics, or physical appearances
• C) Patients with DID do not experience flat affect or illogical associations
• D) All of the above choices are important to the differential diagnosis

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