PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Headache, Dissociative Identity Disorder, American Psychiatric Association
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Most significant potential benefit = selecting a treatment: harm. Most significant potential harm = stigma/ stigmatization of label schizophrenic: ex. Someone diagnosed with schizophrenia is labeled a: individual is labeled as their disorder with negative, these labels are not applied to people with physiological, ex. Someone with cancer is not referred to as a canceric connotation disorders. Biological assessment and diagnosis: genetic, neurochemical, imaging, structural: what doesn"t look like normal/ average, functional: what doesn"t function like normal/ average. There is no lab test for most of psychopathology: diagnoses are individuals made via the dsm-v. Most common method = ct scan (computerized tomography)/ Cat (computerized axial tomography: uses x-rays from all angles to give 2d and 3d images. Mri (magnetic resonance imaging: x rays = radiation, cheaper, higher resolution/ higher quality picture/ high definition, no radiation, uses strong magnets. Changes polarity of electrons in the most basic picture elements of your being: more expensive.
