PSYC 2621 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Criterion Validity, Mental Disorder
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Chapter three classification and assessment of abnormal behavior. The dsm currently in the fifth edition is what psychologist use to make diagnosis. A listing of the mental disorder is followed by the symptoms. Three is a description of the number of symptoms that are mandatory in order to receive that diagnosis and the minimum time limit that the number of symptoms must follow in order to receive the diagnosis. Mental disorders involve emotional distress, significantly impaired functioning or behavior that p laces people at high risk for personal suffering, pain, disability or death. Culture bound syndromes may reflect exaggerated forms of common folk superstitions and belief patters within a particular culture. In the us includes anorexia nervosa and multiple personality disorder. Controversy about the dsm-5 involved: expansion of diagnosable disorders, changes in classification of mental disorders, changes in diagnostic criteria for particular disorders, process of development that did not include input from leading researchers and scholars in the field.
