PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Factitious Disorder, American Psychiatric Association, Oppositional Defiant Disorder
27 Feb 2018
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Diagnostic labels/ categories to describe and classify presenting problem. Identifies dysfunction based n personal distress, impaired functioning or increased risk of impaired functioning. Making it difficult for the to function adequately in any aspect of their life. Helps select treatments known to be effective on certain symptoms. Narrow down range of treatments to a set that we believe to be effective in the case of these symptoms/ that disorder. Not based on our understanding of their causes. Assume similar symptoms = similar disorder with same causes (not true) Treats disorders as discrete entities, not as points on continuum. Tendency for certain disorders to become popular, and then fall out of favour. Multiple personality disorder (did) in 1980s and 90s (increase in diagnosis) Adhd and autism in the 2000s (frequency of diagnosis has skyrocketed) Bipolar disorder (especially in children) suggests pharmacological treatment. We do not know the causes of any, just label the symptom.
