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Standards Index: Topic 8.5: Trauma – and Stressor-Related, Dissociative, and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

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Skill 1.B: Explain behavior in context

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Psychology: Dissociative Disorder

Students will learn how a best-selling book and a popular movie about multiple personality disorder gave rise to a crisis of misdiagnosis and maltreatment, and how that now-debunked diagnosis has been replaced by a new one: dissociative identity disorder.