PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reward System, Personalization, Grandiosity
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Deviance- behaviours, thoughts, and feelings that are not in line with generally accepted standards, either statistically or culturally based. Distress- behaviours, thoughts, and feelings that are upsetting and cause pain, suffering and or sorrow. Dysfunction- behaviours, thoughts and feelings are disruptive to one"s regular routine or interfere with daily functioning. Dangerous- behaviours, thoughts, and feelings may cause harm to oneself or others. Clinicians do not use the diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm) as just a checklist when they are diagnosing a patient. The manual is used in conjunction with an extensive clinical interview that attempts to assess the patient"s developmental background, current context, degree of the four d"s, etc. A case formulation is the clinician"s best attempt to explain the patient"s case in terms from the dsm but based on information gathered from the interview. Diagnosis is the result of the peer reviewed expertise of the community as expressed in the.
