When lecturing about dissociative disorders to a group of nursing students, a nurse states that an essential feature of their disorder involves which of the following?
A) Total amnesia of the events that caused the disorder
B) Overuse of sedatives like alcohol
C) Failure to integrate identity, memory, and consciousness
D) Disinhibited social engagement, being overly friendly with strangers
Ans: C
The essential feature of these disorders involves a failure to integrate identity, memory, and consciousness. That is, unwanted intrusive thoughts disrupt one's contact with the here and now, or memories that are normally accessible are lost. These disorders are closely related to trauma- and stressor-related disorders but are categorized separately.
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