SOCI 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mental Disorder, Medicaid, Personal Development
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More accurate description of what mental illness actually is. Decisions on whether to treat are usually categorical. Determining whether someone meets the threshold for needing treatment. How many people meet the criteria for this disorder. Ask if there was any point in time if someone has experienced a symptom. Disregards info about degree and characteristics of psychological distress. Checkboxes and giving diagnostic loses how severe or frequent symptoms are. Ignores similarities of those in different categories and differences within the same category. Could be one symptom short so not diagnosed and grouped with people with no distress. Diagnoses comes to dominates someones self identity and how they are treated. No significant change in disorder in past year. Half of people getting treatment don"t have a disorder in the dsm. Less than half of the people with a serious disorder received treatmnet. Used for screening scales, increasingly being used, influences many clinical decisions.
