PSYCH-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: American Psychiatric Association, Not Otherwise Specified, Binge Eating Disorder
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Necessary for research and advancing scientific understandings. First step on deciding treatment: dsm classification. Diagnoses and statistical manual (dsm) of the american psychiatric. Dsm-iv (1994) dr. allen frances chaired the working group task force. Dsm-v (2013) introduces changes including elimination of multi-axial system. Update criteria based on new research knowledge. Reduce the number of not otherwise specified (nos) classifications because too generic. Streamline and simplify diagnoses: features of the dsm. It describes the diagnostic features or, in medical terms, symptoms of abnormal behaviours. It does not attempt to explain their origins or adopt any particular theoretical framework (e. g. , psychodynamic or learning theory). Combining some disorders into a single bigger category. New conceptualizations for current disorders (e. g. , ocd & ptsd are no longer considered as anxiety disorders) Epidemiology study of frequency of disorders in populations. Prevalence proportion of people who have a diagnosis at any given time.
