Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dsm-Iv Codes, Thematic Apperception Test, Encopresis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Elizabeth Hayden

Document Summary

Psych 2320b (lec 3 : diagnosis & classification; assessment: diagnosis & classification. What is classification: classification of mental disorders: branch of psychiatry/clinical psychology concerned with description of disorder. Essential for discovering etiological factors: prediction, communication. Drawbacks of classification: labeling, expectancy fulfillment/self-fulfilling prophecy, loss of information or uniqueness, boundary cases. Note: classification systems such as the dsm-iv are sometimes described as. Evolution of dsm: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm): classification system for mental disorders, six major versions. Dsm-5 (2013: pre-1970, most clinicians uninterested in diagnosis, psychoanalytic theory predominant, rise of biological psychiatry, attempts to make psychopathology a modern science, diagnosis increasingly viewed as important, but reliability was low. 1980: criteria variance addressed, resistance to the change was high at first, but became widely accepted. Why was the shift to dsm-iii controversial: doubled # of disorders from dsm-ii. Added learning disorder; caffeine & nicotine disorders: was atheoretical no more neuroses. Anxiety is the chief characteristic of the neuroses.