PSYC 2621 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Content Validity, Mental Disorder
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Mental disorders involve emotional distress, significantly impaired functioning or behavior that places people at risk for personal suffering, pain, disability or death. Culture bound syndromes may reflect exaggerated forms of common folk superstitions and belief patterns within a particular culture. (in the us includes anorexia nervosa and multiple personality disorder) Controversy about dsm-5: expansion of diagnosable disorders, changes in classification of mental disorders, changes in diagnostic criteria for particular disorders, process of development (did not include input from leading researchers and scholars in the field. Sanism is discrimination a person with a mental disorder may receive from family or others due to diagnosis. Reliability of a method of assessment like that of a diagnostic system refers to its consistency. An assessment technique has internal consistency if the different parts of the test yield consistent results. Content validity of an assessment technique is the degree to which its content represents the behaviors associated with the trait in question.
