Dr. cranberry suspects that her client is selectively failing to recall an event that must, by all evidence, be stored in his memory. if the therapist turns out to be correct in this assessment, she will identify the disorder as dissociative a. amnesia. b. repression. c. fugue. d. identity disorder.

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Dr. Cranberry suspects that her client is selectively failing to recall an event that must, by all evidence, be stored in his memory. If the therapist turns out to be correct in this assessment, she will identify the disorder as dissociative.

A. amnesia.

According to the given scenario, if the Dr. Cranberry is correct in the given assessment, she will identify the disorder as dissociative amnesia.

Option A

Explanation:

Dissociative amnesia refers to the condition in which a person lacks ability to recall data that would not regularly be lost with common forgetting. This may be caused due to stress or accident experienced during the life time.  

As the client of Dr. Cranberry is failing to recall an event stored in his memory she correctly identifies the disorder as “dissociative amnesia”. Her client may be affected with disorder due to any unfortunate happening such as accident or due to unmanageable stress.