Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anxiety Disorder, Eating Disorder, Medicalization
23 Oct 2018
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm, current edition. Having a anxiety disorder and an eating disorder. 50% of people have comorbidity (more than one disorder) With each new edition of the dsm new diagnostic categories arise. Developmental, gender and cultural considerations diagnostic criteria may need to vary across life span. Women and depression vs. men and substance abuse disorders. Culture-bound syndrome sets of symptoms that occur together uniquely in certain ethnic or racial groups. Dsm-not all persons with the exact same diagnosis experience the exact same symptoms. If you have the symptoms, you have them, doesn"t matter if you"re. Dimensional suggests that people with disorders are not qualitatively distinct from people with out disorders from people with out disorders. We all get depressed, they just get more depressed for longer periods of time. Psychiatric illness conceptualized as dimensions of functioning versus discrete clinical conditioning.
