Which of the Following Is NOT True About Language During

question 74

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT true about language during an assessment?

• A)Overdiagnosis may occur when the assessor interprets the client's description of symptoms as indicating more pathology than is really present.
• B)Underdiagnosis may occur when the client cannot articulate complex emotions or strange perceptual experiences in the assessor's language.
• C)Seldom do interpreters misunderstand and mistranslate a clinician's questions and the client's answers.
• D)As different people from the same country can speak different dialects of a language or may have different means of expressing feelings and attitudes, mistranslation can occur.

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