PSY 4105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Factor, Fender Wide Range, Psychotherapy
15 Feb 2017
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Assessing children and adolescents: how a psychiatrist would come to a diagnosis. Hugely controversial: uproar in community for being not as strongly scientific as it had been in the past. Criticized for being unclear and lacking strong empirical support. Elimination of the multi-axial system from dsm-iv-tr. Neurodevelopmental disorder section: disorders and how to treat them i. e. autism spectrum disorder, adhd, etc. More dimensional: autism, eating disorders, schizophrenia impacts understanding of the. More in harmony with icd: finding a common language of mental health. Children can be diagnosed with most disorders except some personality disorders and some sexual dysfunctional disorders. Increased efforts to harmonize the icd and dsm. Pros and cons of diagnosis two views. Facilitates research on the causes, epidemiology and treatment. Disagreement about whether effectiveness of the labels reach goals. Much less responsive to treatment if carrying a label around. Comorbidity with symptoms (over-diagnosing a child w/ multiple disorders)
