N, a college student, comes to the mental health clinic with symptoms of feeling blue and having occasional difficulty sleeping. He is able to manage his course work with lowered grades but states he just doesn't get as much pleasure from life as he did several months ago. The nurse making his global assessment of functioning would probably assign the rating of
a. 100.
b. 70.
c. 40.
d. 10.
Ans: b. 70.
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