PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: No Agenda, User Friendly, Dsm-5
14 Oct 2015
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Organizes things; helps make sense of which symptoms cluster together. Be able to properly assign treatment; insurance to understand what they will and won"t cover. Able to understand when you tell them what disorder you are suffering from: cons. Addict, anorexic, schizophrenic; label people by their disorder. Assuming why people suffer, assume certain ideas about what the sufferer is going through. Negative connotation with particular disorder, make sufferer feel ashamed. Some symptoms can be seen across several categories. Have schizophrenia, also have high anxiety, etc. Many people who have one disorder, often have another disorder. How many symptoms must you have in order to have the illness: dimensional theory. All clinicians can agree on a diagnosis; rather than one thinking depression and one thinking anxiety. Don"t have to say that someone has depression or anxiety. The dsm: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Main classification system of adult and child mental illness.
