PSY341H1 Lecture Notes - Body Language, Mania, Apperception
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One of the most contentious issues in applied psychology. Requires giving an indiv client or patient. Required for treatment in us & canada so that insurance covers it. A diagnostic system is classifying, grping a set of symptoms together. Icd: very highly defined: categories exist (symptoms have to occur together regularly) Now use dsm v (diagnostic & statistical manual: more clinically derived (derived by consensus) than empirically or statistically derived. This problem w icd too: published by american psychiatric association, only ppl who are licensed, can use dsm to diagnose, used commonly in usa, canada, uk, japan. Syndromes (grps of symptoms) occur in categories: calling things spectrum disorders instead of dif types of the disorder. Schizophrenias dif symptoms occur in dif degrees in dif ways in dif ppl: eliminated the childhood section put into other categories since adults can have them too.
