Chapter 3, Classification and Diagnosis Flashcards
Thomas Achenback
Achenbach’s work yielded two broad dimensions of problems: externalizing problems and internalizing problems.
Emil Kraepelin
modern attempts to classify and diagnose abnormal human behaviour began with the work of Emil Kraepelin, whose initial examination of dementia praecox (now called schizophrenia) and manic-depressive insanity (now called bipolar mood disorder) laid the foundation for current psychiatric diagnostic systems. The so-called neo-Kraepelinian approach to classification has several characteristics. These include viewing each diagnosis as a medical illness using specific criteria to define a category, and emphasizing the importance of diagnostic reliability
Robert Spitzer