PSY341H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Psychiatric Association, World Health Organization, Intellectual Disability

31 views5 pages
School
Department
Course
Professor

Document Summary

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.