PSYB32H3 Chapter : Book Notes
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) The diagnostic system of the american psychiatric association (dsm=iv. A clinically significant behavioural psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that associated with present distress or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death , pain, disability or an important loss of freedom. Sweeping change is the use of multiaxial classification, whereby each individual is rather on five separate dimensions: axis i. All diagnostic categories except personality disorders and mental retardation: axis ii. Personality disorders and mental retardation: axis iii. Psychosocial and environmental problems: axis v. current level of functioning. The five axes, forces the diagnostician to consider a broad range of information. Although the remaining three axes are not needed to make the actual diagnosis, their inclusion in the. Dsm indicates that factors other than a persons symptoms should be considered in an assessment so that the persons overall life situation can be better understood.
