Factors Associated with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Factors associated with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) include:
- severe childhood trauma (physical, emotional or sexual) or stress caused by seeing someone else experience trauma, that can lead to distorting reality;
- creating alters (the person's alternate personalities);
- being unable to interpret events caused by situational factors;
- having the ability to dissociate (feeling disconnected from others and yourself.
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A clinical psychologist makes the following claim: 'The development of an individual's dissociative identity condition is caused exclusively by their experience of severe, chronic trauma during childhood. No other factors are relevant.' Based on the current understanding of this condition's origins, which of the following provides the most accurate evaluation of this claim?