PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders
1 Dec 2013
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A diagnosis is an identification of a condition or disease state. This is a medical notion that may or may not apply to psychological problems. Need a diagnostic system a collection of rules for guiding us in our determination of a diagnosis: a cold is different from pneumonia in that , depression is different from anxiety in that . Need descriptions that allow different clinicians to recognize the same disorder (reliability) Need descriptors such that if present, they indicate the presence of a disorder, and if absent, the disorder is absent (validity) Recall: hippocrates: beginnings of a diagnostic system, kraeplin (19th century) First comprehensive diagnostic system based on which characteristics occur together. It is enough for someone to say i am depressed? . A problem with depression and suicide is that a lot of depressed people don"t have the energy to commit suicide.
