PSY341H1 Lecture Notes - American Psychiatric Association, Inter-Rater Reliability, Factor Analysis

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Chronological order : assessment , diagnosis and treatments ( somewhat like adult but during assessment and diagnosis is somewhat diff in child) Diagnosis uses the same tool (medical tool) that you would w/ adult = dsm-iv 2 profession : physicians and psychologist can use it legal to provide diagnosis. Dsm-iv tr tool used in north america(canada & us) american psychiatric association group of physicians, mostly psychiatrist medical tool devise for this by psychiatric. Icd is published by who ( division of un) there are disorders in dsm that not recognized in. Selection of treatment is great if diagnosis is correct which is the major advantage of dsm. 5 things consider criteria of good classification system: 1) categories are clearly defined. Dsm-iv is useful but validity poor can lead to misdiagnosis. E. g. polygraph is utility on arousal but poor validity of testing of lying or not.

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