Health Sciences 4092F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Medical Diagnosis, Mental Disorder, Medicalization
12 Apr 2021
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Chapter 1 problems of psychiatric diagnosis and the need for a different approach. Organization"s classification of diseases and related health problems (icd: during the process of diagnosis, a person"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are compared to these groups so as to assign them to a particular category of. How does diagnosis relate to classification: diagnostic categories refer to meaningful clusters of bodily or psychological/behavioural problems, classification systems refer to groups of these clusters into higher-order clusters with (assumed) important shared features, e. g. , depressive disorders. Trauma-informed care lecture 4 notes from readings: e. g. , deficient sexual fantasies , how do we know if they"re deficient, depends on one"s cultural context. Instead, dsm-3 (1980: single set of diagnostic criteria, still, according to some, lacks empirical support. In summary, diagnostic categories have failed to fulfill 3 of their major purposes: (1) to create groups who share important characteristics.
