DST 500 Chapter Notes -Bipolar Disorder, Tantrum, Mental Disorder
25 Apr 2013
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Psychiatry and modern science (santa maria: what does allan frances, designer of dsm 4, think might happen as a result of dsm 5, risk for severe mis-diagnoses or general diagnoses rise in diagnosis, overmedication. If you diagnosed a lot of people, you wouldn"t be able to treat most of them: treatment was over-prescribing medication, this was good for pharmaceutical companies. Little things could be looked at as a big things a temper tantrum would be diagnosed. Listed are 10 items that have been changed from dsm 4 to dsm 5. Nine out of ten people entered into a psychosis prevention program will be misidentified and told they are at risk for eventually becoming psychotic when quite clearly, they are not. Psychosis risk syndrome is still in its early research phase of development and makes no sense as an official category for dsm-5. Can you think of a critique: there are several approaches to the definition of mental disorder.
