About 30 Percent of Those Receiving Outpatient Therapy Are Diagnosed

About 30 percent of those receiving outpatient therapy are diagnosed with an adjustment disorder. Some experts say adjustment disorders are:

A) overdiagnosed, because they are easy to apply to many problems and are less stigmatizing than other diagnoses.
B) overdiagnosed, because clinicians often fail to see that what they label adjustment disorders are in fact stress disorders.
C) underdiagnosed, because many clinicians suspect malingering is the problem, not an adjustment disorder.
D) underdiagnosed, because many clinicians are unwilling to give a diagnosis when a person might not really have a disorder.