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A Client Presents in the Emergency Department with a Friend

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A client presents in the emergency department with a friend who reports that the client has been sitting in her apartment "staring off into space" and doesn't seem interested in doing anything. During the assessment, the client reveals, with little emotion, that she was raped 4 months ago. Which of these is the most appropriate interpretation of the client's lack of emotion?


A) The client is probably hearing voices telling her to be emotionless.
B) The client is experiencing a common symptom of numbing of emotional response.
C) The client is attempting to be secretive and lying, which are common symptoms in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) .
D) The client is having a dissociative episode and revisiting the traumatic event.

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