Your text describes a study of the reliability of diagnoses for several types of mental disorders which concludes that
a. clinicians do not use psychological testing.
b. more categories of mental disorder should be introduced.
c. the diagnostic categories of the DSM are not always used reliably by clinicians.
d. psychiatrists and psychologists fail to cooperate.
Answer: c.
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