DSM-5 Flashcards
What is a mental disorder?
Significant disturbance in a person’s cognition, emotional state, or behavior that reflects dysfunction in mental functioning.
3 considerations for diagnostic assessment
- problem interferes with daily functioning
- environmental context in which behaviors are occurring
- Culture of both client and practitioner
Disorders are ________ that are now seen as dysfunctional and causing great distress in adult life.
coping strategies
Diagnosis
The process of identifying a problem and its underlying causes
Diagnosis vs Assessment
Diagnosis: seeking underlying causes
Assessment: the analysis
Positives of assessment:
uniform diagnosis, improves communication, basis for education
Negatives of Assessment
lead to diagnostic labels, limited info on environment, doesn’t describe intervention strategy
DSM:
diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders
DSM-5 came out which year?
2013
DSM 1 characteristics:
Biopsychosocial model, psychoanalystic, 106 disorders
DSM 2 characteristics
Eliminated disease model, treatment aimed at treating disease, 182 disorders
DSM 3 characteristics
No belief in brain plasticity, treatment couldn’t affect structure of brain, use disease model for observations, multi-axial review introduced, 265 disorders
DSM 3 revision characteristics
standardized diagnostic criteria/categories
DSM 4 characteristics
retained some disease model, retained multi-axial system, NOS concepts introduced
DSM 5 characteristics
New classification system, severity scores replace GAF, more dimensional focus, respect for age culture and gender, dedication to children, suicide risk, risk factors
DSM 4 Axis 1
clinical disorders
DSM 4 Axis 2
personality disorders
DSM 4 axis 3
general medical conditions