PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Binge Eating, Psychogenic Amnesia, Construct Validity
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Disorder must be categorized correctly before its causes and treatments can be found. If one research group has found a successful treatment for depression but has defined the treatment in an unconventional manner, the finding is not likely to be replicated by another group of investigators. The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder (dsm) now in the fourth addition known as dsm-iv-tr. Gradually people recognized that different illnesses required different treatments. Great inconsistency in the classification of abnormal behavior. Several attempts made to provide a system that would be widely adopted. In uk, statistical committee of the royal medico-psychological association. In paris, the congress of mental science single classification system. In the us, the association of medical superintendents of american institution adopted revered version of the british system: new york state insisted on their own system. The world health organization added mental disorders to the international list of causes of death.
