A patient is referred to you by
an oncologist. The patient, a month after receiving the diagnosis
of cancer by the oncologist, denies the diagnosis and has become
noncompliant with the oncologist's treatment recommendations.
In your initial psychiatric interview, you uncover no other mood,
anxiety, or behavioral symptoms. On the basis of this limited information,
what might be a reasonable initial diagnosis for this patient?
A. Adjustment disorder with anxiety.
B. Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct.
C. Adjustment disorder with depressed mood.
D. Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions
and conduct.
E. Adjustment disorder unspecified.