PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder
12 Jan 2017
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Diagnostic labels/categories to describe & classify presenting problems. Identifies dysfunction based on personal distress, impaired functioning, or increased risk of impaired functioning. Helps select treatments known to be effective on certain symptoms. Sometimes groups of disorders have no relation to each other with causes of the disorder, it is based on the similarity of symptoms. Assume similar symptoms = similar disorder with same causes. Treats disorders as discrete entities, not as points on a continuum. Multiple pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) diso(cid:396)de(cid:396) (cid:894)did(cid:895) i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s a(cid:374)d (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s. Problem: it suggests pharmacological treatments that are known to be dangerous in adults let alone children. In(cid:272)lusio(cid:374) of s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s that do(cid:374)(cid:859)t see(cid:373) like (cid:858)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal diso(cid:396)de(cid:396)s(cid:859) They made it into the system and have survived. Because there is always more variability in the results within the mental disorder category than between it and normal or other mental disorders, none of the promising biological findings has ever (cid:395)ualified as a diag(cid:374)osti(cid:272) test. (cid:863) (cid:894)p. (cid:1005)(cid:1005))
