PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Autism Spectrum, Dsm-5, Psych
14 Jan 2014
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Disorders presented earlier in life presented before disorders occurring later in life! New categories: hoarding disorder, excoriation (skin-picking) disorder! No longer a label for asbergers - you would be labeled with autism spectrum disorder! The categories are not categorized according to causes! We don"t know anything for certain about the aetiology! Disorder categories are organized according to symptoms, even if the cause is different! Because we would know nothing about the causes we label by symptom not cause! Problems in emotion, thinking and behaviour that are clinically signi cant! It is unde ned in the dsm however what clinically signi cant means! Not a testable situation! diagnostic criteria such as anxiety! It has not been possible to completely separate normal and pathological symptoms in. A generic diagnostic criterion requiring distress or disability has been used to establish disorder thresholds usually worded:! The disturbance causes clinically signi cant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning !
