PSYC 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Psychopathology
19 Dec 2013
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Dsm-i and dsm-ii followed more psychiatric traditional and less diagnosis (no childhood disorders) Dsm-iii first time to be explicit; no longer descriptive; first time for multi-axial system which continues today. Dsm-iiir improved some diagnostic criteria; not big improvement. Dsm-iv and dsm-iv tr text within criteria improved but criteria remained the same; first place for prototypic (doesn"t need same symptoms with the person who has the same disorder; different ways to have the same disorder) Clinicians and thousands of people in the us gather data and define the disorders" symptoms and come to consensus by experts. Defining what psychopathology is any disorder or syndrome that occurs within the individual must cause distress or dysfunction, thus restrict life activities in some way. Diagnosis comes from defining psychopathology very behavioural (behaviours we can observe) Goal of dsm is reliability different therapists should come to the same conclusion.
