PSY341H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Psychiatric Association, World Health Organization, Intellectual Disability
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Assessment, diagnosis and treatment to be talked about in the future of this course; the assessment process changes between children and adults, however. There are only two professions that can use the dsm-iv tr: physicians and psychiatrists. Dsm-iv tr is the assessment used in canada and the united states, published by. American psychiatric association, a group of physicians (mainly psychiatrists) The rest of the world does not use this, they use the icd: international classification of. Diseases, currently on version 10 but going on 11 soon. If you are getting diagnosed in ontario, for i. e. , you need to get diagnosed by icd as well. World health organization, a division of the united nations, there are disorders that one tool of assessment recognizes and the other doesn"t (and vice-versa) The number one disadvantages of being diagnosed of the dsm-v tr is the poor validity this chances of a misdiagnosis is very high with this particular tool.