PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Psychopathology, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Thematic Apperception Test
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Assessment: the process of gathering information about people"s symptoms and the possible causes of those symptoms. Information is gathered in an assessment is used to determine the appropriate diagnosis for a person"s problems. Diagnosis: the label attached to a set of symptoms that tend to occur together. In gathering information, we would want to look at the symptoms and history, physiological and neurophysiological factors and sociocultural factors that guide the information of a diagnosis: current symptoms. Many disorders appear to have genetic roots, so knowing that an individual has a family history of a particular disorder can assist in diagnosing that disorder. Psychological disorders don"t have definitive biological test. They can tell whether a medical disease is causing psychological symptoms as side effects. Drugs can induce distressing psychological symptoms as side effects during use or withdrawal from the drugs. Differential diagnosis: a determination of which of several possible disorders an individual may have.
