PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Depersonalization Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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Chapter 4: classification and diagnosis: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm): a publication of the american. Usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important. The current diagnostic system of the american psychiatric association: mental health: defined as a present distress or disability or a significant increase in the rick of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom. Five dimensions of classification: multiaxial classification: the rating of an individual on five separate dimensions or axes. All diagnostic categories except personality disorders and mental retardation: axis ii. Personality disorders and mental retardation: axis iii. Psychosocial and environmental problems: axis v. current level of functioning. Axis i includes all diagnostic categories except personality disorders and mental retardation, which make up axis ii. On axis iii the clinician indicates any general medical conditions believed to be relevant to the mental disorder in question.