General

Question 1

What are the 5 DSM diagnostic steps?

Answer 1

Disorder (clinical diagnosis)
Environmental stressors
Medical conditions
Rule out/provisional
Reasoning

Question 2

Can you have more than 1 disorder listed?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

If there is no Disorder, do you list environmental stressors alone?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Do you list all medical issues?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

When is Rule out/Provisional used?

Answer 5

Doesn’t meet all the criteria but meets most of them

Question 6

What is the difference between Other Specified Disorders and Unspecified Disorder?

Answer 6

Other specified: chooses TO communicate why criteria is not met

Unspecified: chooses NOT to communicate reasons why criteria is not met

Question 7

What is psychopathology?

Answer 7

study of mental disorders

Question 8

What approach is used by the DSM?

Answer 8

Descriptive approach (describe symptoms of mental illness)

Question 9

Why use the DSM to diagnose?

Answer 9

improves communication: (common language, communicate lots of info)

validation & hope: (not alone, others survived, treatment)

Understanding: (pathogensis: course of dev, onset)

Question 10

Does the DSM provide information on treatment?

Answer 10

No

Question 11

What is an example diagnosis for Bipolar?

Answer 11

296.42 Bipolar I Disorder, current episode manic, moderate severity, w/mixed features

Question 12

Example of Depression diagnosis?

Answer 12

300.4 Persistent depressive Disorder, mild severity, with early onset, with pure dysthymic syndrome