Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Marie Savundranayagam

Document Summary

Dsm-5 is the major psychiatric manual in. Person must have high severity, and it must be ongoing for a certain amount of time, also the symptoms interfere with social, occupational function, daily function. Includes diagnostic criteria for major forms of psychological disorder. To meet criteria, client must have a fairly high degree of severity and symptoms must persist over period of time. Other countries use the international classification of diseases (icd)- includes psychiatric and physical disorders. Table from article from gym et al, reference, lifetime prevalence of major disorder. Are older adults more depressed/anxious than younger adults. You can see here, most of the major psychiatric disorders are much higher in the younger group (18-44) compared to in the older age groups, Prevalence rates go down quite significantly, significant drop, something is happening as we get older where we don"t see as much anxiety disorders, mood disorders, 20. 3 to 6. 7, huge drop.