PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
15 Nov 2017
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Textbook: abnormal psychology, 5th canadian edition, barlow et al **: abnormal psychology handbook. Midterms: 30% each (2, 40 md, non-cumulative. Final: 40, 80 mc questions, cumulative (8-10 text questions, all from after 2nd midterm) Guest speakers: no recordings, questions on midterms and final exams. Dsm 5: 300 disorders, we know the cause(s) of none of them, nothing from the dsm is fully understood. Extent of our ignorance: dsm disorder categories do not reflect multiple and overlapping causes of mental disorder, do not know why or how our pharmacological or psychotherapeutic treatments work. Rettew et al (2009) : meta-analysis of agreement between clinical diagnosis and research diagnosis. Sept 7, 2017: agreement (kppa) low to moderate for most disorders, kappa = . 14 (affective and bipolar disorders, kappa = . 19 (generalized anxiety disorder, kappa = . 70 (eating disorders, kappa = . 27 overall. Samuel (2015) : survey of studies comparing reliability of personality disorder diagnoses: clinician agreement moderate: r=. 43, clinician-research agreement low: r=. 23.
