PSY340H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Probability Distribution, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Dsm-5
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Promote internaional collaboraion among members of the scieniic community to eliminate dispariies between the who/icd/dsm. Simulate the empirical research necessary to allow informed decision-making regarding deiciencies ideniied in dms- iv. Dev"l of broadly agreed upon criteria that can be used universally. Beneicial to incorporate a dimensional component to the diagnosis of all disorders. Firstly adopted anatheoreical posiion in which no one theory is correct. Rather than assert validity, focus on reliability by idenifying syndromes and deining explicit criteria capable of being observed and replicated across seings. Populaion highly heterogeneous despite having similar clinical presentaions. Therefore dms 3 emerged with a polytheic view; existence of a disorder would be based on the presence of a certain number of criteria. Found that it was too broad and resulted in high numbers of co morbidity. Failed to speciically deine individuals with only one disorders. Alert that being strict to neo-kraeplinian categorical approach has serious problems.
