A 35-year-old woman, Caroline, diagnosed with depression and dissociative identity disorder (DID) is hospitalized when outpatient therapy proved insufficient to manage her mood. You are part of the interdisciplinary team working with this client. You overhear one of the nursing assistants urging another to “go see the client and her eleven faces.” #2. What are some of the safety issues you might anticipate with a diagnosis of DID in a client such as Caroline in the above Dissociative Identity Disorder case study? Keeping in mind the etiology of DID, how would you handle the situation with the nursing assistant?
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