While many clinicians believe that developing more descriptive assessments would be of benefit in both research and clinical settings, this is unlikely to happen because
a. the benefit of an efficient shorthand for communicating about disorders outweighs all other considerations.
b. it would never be reliable and valid.
c. they are time consuming and therefore expensive.
d. the different theoretical approaches will probably never be able to agree on the descriptions.
c
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