PSYCO335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hypothesis, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Pattern Matching
4 Oct 2017
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Thomas achenbach (child psychopathology researcher) work yielded 2 broad dimensions of problems: externalizing problems acting-out behaviours (ex. yelling, showing aggression, etc. ) Internalizing problems refer to feelings (ex. sadness, withdrawn behaviour, etc. ) Central element to all branches of social science. Allows scientists to organize, describe, and relate the subject matter of their discipline. Range of features can be used to classify objects or concepts such as form, function and purpose. Can be positive or negative: negative create predetermined ideas. Work of emil kraeplin laid the foundation for current psychiatric diagnostic systems. Classification validity- the extent to which the principles used in classifying an entity are effective in capturing the nature of the entity. It is what you think it is: tied to the validity of your assessment. But how do you validate that: questionnaire after your diagnosis. The diagnosis would be consistent across different accessors, across time, and across setting or context: diffi(cid:272)ult fo(cid:396) dep(cid:396)essio(cid:374) as it"s episodi(cid:272)
