PSYCH-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clinical Formulation, Dsm-5, Psych
16 Oct 2020
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Mental health professionals outside the u. s. and canada use the world. Health organizations diagnostic system, which is the international. The advantage of using the icd is that it provides a common diagnostic system that the 110-member nations of who can use for epidemiological purposes. This provides increased consistency of diagnostic terminology among various countries. Clinicians may want to include their overall judgement of a client"s. An instrument known as the who disability assessment schedule is psychological, social, and occupational functioning include as a section of the dsm-5 so clinicians can provide such a rating. Recurrent patterns of abnormal behavior or experience that are limited to specific societies or cultural areas. Case formulation reason the individual seeks professional help. Principal diagnosis: the disorder that is considered to be the primary. Differential diagnosis: the process of systematically ruling out alternative. Comorbid: the situation that occurs when multiple diagnostic conditions diagnoses occur simultaneously within the same individual.
