PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder

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This lecture covers chapters 3 and 5: chapter 5 will be discussed very briefly. This lecture will touch on all the different disorders as briefly as possible. Dsm (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: there"s actually nothing statistical about the dsm. It"s the text that psychiatrists, physicians and psychologists use to render a diagnosis. 3 reasons: one important reason for having a diagnostic manual is it ensures that the right treatment is prescribed. If you"re a psychiatrist and you diagnose someone with something (ex. It"s easier to determine that the person has schizophrenia, so the. Dsm provides a descriptive term which encapsulates all of the symptoms (reliability) having a book like this allows multiple drs examining a single patient to reliably agree on a diagnosis. Without the manual, maybe one or two of them come to different conclusions and diagnose the same person differently (low reliability: three: research. Dsm allows researchers to conduct more research on the disorders.

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