PSYC 4530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Female Sexual Arousal Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
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0:01ch 3 diagnosis and assessment abnormal psyc 4530. 0:07to be given a diagnosis to explain symptoms is comforting, espec if the disorder is considered. The unknown is more frightening than having a definitive. But before you can treat psychopathology, you need to identify and classify what you. For the clinician whose purpose is to treat the person with symptoms, 0:34a master-plan that encompasses causes, base rates, and possible treatments is quite helpful. 0:42this master-plan of classifying disorders allows clinicians to communicate and share. 0:48research and to work in tandem with a classification system that is consistent and accurate. 0:57such a system, we would not have reliable and valid categories of mental disorder. 1:03dsm-5-- which attempts to provide this master guide. 1:13so complex, that it makes reliability and validity all the more difficult to obtain. 1:21in order to arrive at a diagnosis, assessment is necessary. 1:27of credible assessment are reliability and validity. (the discipline of psychometrics.
