PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Autism Spectrum, Binge Eating Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
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Dsm-4: abnormal behaviours that shouldn"t be abnormal behaviours, or abnormal behaviours that are clearly missing (criticism for dsm-4) Disorders occur in a spectrum (not categorical) Not a lot of differences between dsm 4 and 5. New disorders are added, and some that haven"t been added and they should have (criticism) Attempted to make dsm-5 more statistical, but were unsuccessful. New learning disorders and autistic spectrum disorder : no separate section for childhood disorders. New category addiction and related disorder : no longer substance abuse disorder, instead it"s called addiction disorder since you can be addicted to things other than drugs and alcohol. Behavioural addictions (gambling: significant negative consequences for gambling. Sexual addiction and internet addiction were considered but were not included in dsm-5. Hoarding behaviour was added (collecting materials that are not useful to you but cannot let go of them), usual treatment is flooding (throwing hoarded stuff away)
