PSY240H1 Lecture : lecture note
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Diagnosis classification of psychological disorder, diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm), semi- structured clinical interviews (scid) Clinical assessment aspects of assessment, clinical interview, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological and neuroimaging, psychological testing. Assessment begins when clinicians see someone and gatheres information, what is the presenting difficulty and factors contributuing, why is this person experience this problem no at this time. Overlap in problems so ask in detail so they can separate, may ask life events that were challenging, antoher factor is is person going through disease, people depressed after stroke and haeart attack asthma panic disorders, Make sure working with family doctor ot rule out illness contributing it. Drug or alcohol is involved in symptom difficulty, drug help account for symptoms, smoke joint and think they are going to die, drug induced. Personal family history, other family members currently or in past, genetic association.
