(50) Intro to Psychopathology and The Psychiatric Evaluation

Question 1

What is a mental disorder?

Answer 1

clinically significant DISTURBANCES in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that is a REFLECTION OF DYSFUNCTION in the phychosocial, biological, or developmental process

Question 2

What are specifiers? Examples of specifiers?

Answer 2

words that are added to the diagnosis that describe the SEVERITY and/or CHRONICITY of the disorder:

• mild, moderate, severe, extreme
• whether or not pt has insight into the problem
• • or - delusions or hallucinations
• episodic, persistant, or recurrent

Question 3

differences in the top of the diagnostic list when the pt is inpatient vs outpatient

Answer 3

inpatient = dx is what landed them in the hospital
outpatient = reason for the visit (as identified by the pt)