PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Statistical Significance, Autism Spectrum, Negative Affectivity
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-5): Mental disorder: a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associate with significant distress or disability in social, occupational or other important activities: exclusions: An expectable and culturally sanctioned response to a particular event (ex. Deviant behavior (e. g. , political, religious, or sexual ex. Conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society (unless the deviance or conflict is a symptom of a dysfunction in the individual) ex. Research: extent of does classification advance research -do people in clinical trial who meet prescribed criteria have clinical problems. Clinical practice: does system advance clinical practice in terms of guiding treatment. Pharmaceutical industry: does pharmaceutical industry influence how disorders are defined. Legal system: do biases/inadequacies in how disorder is determined get reflected in legal decisions.
