PSY 3171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: World Health Organization, Mental Disorder, Psychopathology
24 Jan 2020
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Chapter 3: assessment is a procedure through which information is gathered systematically in the evaluation of a condition. It serves as the basis for a diagnosis: characteristics of a strong diagnostic system: Inter-rater reliability (extent to which two clinicians agree on the diagnosis of a particular patient) Classification is important in accurately assessing and diagnosing as well as determining effective treatment for mental disorders. Understanding the prevalence and etiology of particular mental health problems: a diagnostic system is based on etiology, presenting symptoms, prognosis and response to treatment, a diagnostic system also allows for professionals to communicate easily, history of classification: Kraepelin was the first to make an effort at classification. World health organization added mental health disorders to the. In 1948 the list was expanded to become the international statistical. Due to limitations of the icd system, in 1952 the american psychiatric. Association published its own classification system called the diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm).
