PSYC 1000 Lecture 11: PSYC*1000- Week 11

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm) of mental disorders. Adhd: reduced # of criteria necessary for diagnosis. Gad (anxiety) reduced # of criteria & symptomatic duration necessary for diagnosis. Asd severity classified as severe, moderate or mild. Attenuated psychosis syndrome aka psychosis risk syndrome intended to identify young people at risk of psychotic disorders symptoms: heard whispers in their heads viewed objects as threatening, etc. Attenuated psychosis syndrome symptoms common in general population strikingly low predictive validity for conversion to full psychosis. Some north american & british clinical psychologists have been critical. Some excerpts from an open letter to the dsm-5 task force from the british. The putative diagnoses presented in dsm-v are clearly based largely on social norms, with "symptoms" that all rely on subjective judgments, with little confirmatory physical. The criteria are not value-free, but rather reflect current normative social expectations. [taxonomic] systems such as this are based on identifying problems as located within individuals.