PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Psychiatric Association, Anorexia Nervosa, Inter-Rater Reliability
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Labelling would help others to identify symptoms. Allow us to inform us on how to treat the disorder it allows to organize and give reason to the disorder it allows us to communicate a constellation of symptoms label helps the family to understand the symptoms. Get people around you feel sympathetic around you. Allows us to do research to know what causes those disorders. What are the disadvantages of having these labels. Believing you have that disorder while you don"t have the disorder. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5) Dsm-5 unlike the old editions, it has statistical info! Second dsm pretty much the same bullshit :) third dsm first axis major mental disorders. Developed the axis that you have to follow. 5th the gaf scale third axis stressors fourth mental disorders. Randomly pick a number and that number determines the amount of disabilities lol.
