PSY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Neurotransmitter, Mood Disorder
Document Summary
Diagnosing mental disorder the dsm, published by the american psychiatric association, primary tool used to diagnose mental disorders. It is a book that provides clear diagnostic categories for each disorder: symptoms, typical age of onset, predisposing factors, course of the disorder, prevalence. Advantages of the dsm improves the reliability and agreement among clinicians, includes culture-bound syndromes. Disadvantages of the dsm danger of over diagnosis, power of diagnostic labels, confusion of mental disorders with everyday problems, illusion of objectivity and universality. Two categories of psychological tests: projective present ambiguous stimuli to interpret, transfer unconscious conflicts and motives onto ambiguous stimuli (such as rorschach inkblot test, thematic apperception) Advantages helps clients open up about anxieties and conflicts. Disadvantages unreliable in diagnosing mental disorders, low validity: objective standardized questionnaires, ask about the test taker"s behaviour and feelings, t/f, mc, rating scales (such as myers-briggs, mmpi) Advantages reliably assess emotional problems, more valid than projective tests of subjective clinical observations and interviews.
