PSYCH 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Borderline Personality Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Dsm-5
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1) provides a common language b/w clinicians. Disorder labels allow people to refer to the same understood concepts when discussing clients. 2) rule-based criteria are easy to use and somewhat reliable. 3) research and therapies can target specific categories. Tries to solve comorbidity by just splitting categories into more. 2) there are many flimsy boundaries b/w categories. Schizoaffective disorder b/w schizophrenia & mood pathology (combines the two) 3) many problems do not fit any category. 4) thresholds b/w disorder and non-disorder are arbitrary. Sometimes they believe in label and they believe they won"t change. Don"t have a way to treat this bc it doesnt respond well to medication. Get diagnosed with their real disorder hard (identity, etc. ) Public attitudes toward mental disorders influence how a person reacts to having a diagnosis. Negative attitudes toward those who receive a label that connects them to undesirable features. Labels may influence people"s self-esteem, job opportunities, housing, relationships, etc.
