PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Factitious Disorder, Ecological Validity
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iv-tr: american psychiatric association, nothing statistical about the manual, has descriptive terms of what constitutes particular disorders, text is used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and physicians to formulate/render a diagnosis. It allows us to communicate a diagnosis efficiently and reliably (when 2 people look at something, they should come up with the same term) allows for differential diagnosis; differentiate between different disorders. Differential diagnosis when a patient comes in, may have a number of disorders that may have a lot of overlap in symptoms; weigh all possible diagnoses for research. Slide 4 dsm-iv definition of mental disorder. Anxiety; construct cannot be seen: behavioural impairment: can see the impairment taking place. Excludes: an expectable and culturally sanctioned response to a particular event. Loss of loved one, although you may feel sad, frustrated, it is not a disorder because it is an expected response: deviant behaviour.
