PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Autism Spectrum, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
2 Oct 2017
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Diagnosis and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5) american psychiatric. Some people believe they have a disorder if they are labeled in such a way but they might not really have it; stigma. Nothing statistical about dsm dsm-5 is the only one with a little statistical evidence in it. When it was rst introduced, followed medical model, wasn"t informative about how to diagnose psychopathology and stayed this way until the 3rd edition, when the axis were developed, it also had inter-rater reliability. ** a syndrome (constellation of symptoms) characterized by clinically signi cant disturbance in individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour that re ects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with signi cant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities. There is no one disorder in the dsm that is de ned by one symptom only.
