PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mini Cd, 6 Years, Trichotillomania
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Dsm (diagnostic statistical manual) important for following reasons: allows us to choose proper treatment, allows us to communicate efficiently (describes symptoms & communicates treatment reliably) * has to be inter-rater reliability (2 ppl looking at something should come up with the same diagnosis, therefore enhances reliability: ability to differentiate between different disorders symptoms from dsm to help make final diagnosis. Ex: guy with shirt experiment should have felt anxious (but didn"t) but anxiety is generally a. Just has descriptive terms about what constitutes a certain disorder. Dsm clinically significant behavioural or psychological syndrome (a constellation of symptoms that typically occur together -> no one syndrome constitutes an a psychological disorder number of syndromes which define the disease )or pattern that occurs in an individual. Can dissect this def further (diff b/w behavioural and psychological impairment) psychological disorder (can"t see it) Dsm specifies that it can be either or both.
