PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inter-Rater Reliability, Allen Frances, Personality Disorder
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Guidelines for financial support statement of that finding behavior, provides criteria for the disorder. Assessment: procedure where information is gathered systematically in evaluation of condition. Diagnosis: determination or identification of the nature of a person"s diseases/condition, or. Diagnostic system: a system of rules for recognizing and grouping various types of abnormal. Reliability: must give the same outcome every time you use it. Validity: whether the diagnostic categories can be used to predict actual disorder. Inter-rater reliability: whether 2 or more people agree on diagnosis. Concurrent: r efers to the ability of diagnostic category to estimate individual"s present. Predictive: ability of a test to predict future course of an individual"s development standing on factors related to disorder but not part of criteria. Polythetic orientation (people could be diagnosed without having all the criteria), multi-axis model. Disorders required clinically significant status, increase in descriptions, removal of some personality disorders.
