PSYC 2364 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Chartered Management Institute, Automatic Negative Thoughts, Thematic Apperception Test
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Chapter 3: classification and assessment of abnormal behavior. The latest version, published in 2013, is the dsm-5. Another common system of classification, published by the world health organization, is used mainly for compiling statistics on the worldwide occurrence of disorders: the. International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (icd), which is now in its tenth revision (the icd-10). The dsm-5 is compatible with the icd, so that dsm diagnoses could be coded in the. The dsm system, like the medical model, treats abnormal behaviors as signs or symptoms of underlying disorders or pathologies. However, the dsm does not assume that abnormal behaviors necessarily reflect biological causes or defects. The authors of the dsm recognize that their use of the term mental disorder is problematic because it perpetuates a long-standing but dubious distinction between mental and physical disorders. It describes the diagnostic features or, in medical terms, symptoms of abnormal behaviors.
