What is one reason that the prevalence of dissociative identity disorder (DID) has been increasing?
A. Children in today's society are far more likely to experience severe trauma than they were in the past.
B. DID has only recently received full acceptance by the psychiatric community, and thus professionals are now using this diagnosis.
C. As of 1980, most insurance companies had to accept DID as a billable diagnosis.
D. It may be that the prevalence of DID has not changed at all, but that clinicians may unknowingly encourage the emergence of new identities.
Answer: D
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a. the United States b. Japan c. Germany d. Great Britain
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