PSYC 440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Research Domain Criteria, Major Depressive Disorder, Uptodate
11 Feb 2018
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Lecture 2 concepts of psychopathology and issues in diagnosis: diagnostic classification systems, video, pros of dsm: Dsm should be seen as a dictionary. Provide patients and clinicians with up-to-date information about mental. Dsm should not be seen as a cookbook. If professionals interpret it too rigidly or literally, it can be too harmful (i. e. professional clinical judgment must be used): recall, dcss include: International classification of diseases (but not only psychiatric). Published by the who (first edition in 1853). Mental health chapter appeared in the 6th edition (1948). More emphasized in practice and training in europe than in na. More used in research all over the world. Dsm codes are still translated in icd codes: problem of current classification systems, include: Same neurobiological alterations in different disorders (e. g. , similar patterns seen in anxiety or personality disorders). New neuroscience/genetic data does not map well with the current disorder categories (e. g. , asperger became part of the autism disorder in the dsm).
