Introduction And DSM

Question 1

What is the disease model of psychopathology?

Answer 1

 Psychopathology is like a physical condition 

Question 2

What are the advantages of seeing psychopathology as a disease?

Answer 2

1. Makes it equivalent to a physical disease
2. Did lose to employment
3. Reduces stigma 

Question 3

What is the disadvantage of psychopathology as a disease?

Answer 3

1. People might not like labels.
2. Misdiagnosis
3. People change overtime 
4. People might just miss out on the fudhmodys

Question 4

What is the term abnormal psychology come from?

Answer 4

Statistics

Question 5

What does abnormal psychology mean in statistics?

Answer 5

 there’s a normal distribution and people sit above and below it.  Psychologist are interested in the people sitting at the high extreme (e.g high anxiety)

Question 6

What are some of the issues with statistical measures of psychopathology?

Answer 6

1.  Reliable, doesn’t mean valid
2.  How do we quantify the constructs? E.g. how much depression somehow has
   

Question 7

How does met adaptive or dysfunctional behaviour influence? Diagnosing people?

Answer 7

 you have to decide whether the person is functional or if society sees as dysfunctional you have to decide whether the person is functional or if society sees as dysfunctional and that’s hardline to draw if they see themselves as okay but society doesn’t and vice versa

Question 8

How does distress and disability influence diagnosis?

Answer 8

 Letter to maladaptive behaviour. Disability is the question if you are unable to achieve goals and operate functionally in society and that subjective. Evidence of disability is also necessary for most places 

Question 9

How does social deviance relate to psychopathology?

Answer 9

 behaviour deviates from the norm means you have to decide whether it is bad in comparison to the particular culture, but not all social deviance means mental illness. It can be righteous justice

Question 10

How does this control or the regulation relate to diagnosis?

Answer 10

People have to decide how much they can control their mental illness, and if they can control it, then they could be okay, but how much can people truly control it??

Question 11

How does social constructionalism influence diagnosis?

Answer 11

 Words, such as psychopathology and mental disorder are products of particular, historical and cultural understanding. Does mental illness REALLY exist or is it a time we’ve just made up?

Question 12

 how does essentialism influence diagnosis?

Answer 12

 this argues that psychology and mental disorders are natural and show our true natures

Question 13

Name the concepts in psychopathology

Answer 13

1. Statistical deviance
2. Maladaptive behaviour
3. Distress and disability
4. Social deviance
5. Social constructs
6. Control
7. Essentialism.
   

Question 14

How many classifications of the DSM are there?

Answer 14

5

Question 15

What does ICD and DSM stand for?

Answer 15

 international classification of diseases and diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

Question 16

True or false, who countries can add all remove disorders and adapt the icd

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Which country does most psychopathology research come from?

Answer 17

 America

Question 18

Describe the DSM 1

Answer 18

 Started after World War II (1952) from the APA

Not reliable or valid

Very descriptive

Question 19

Describe the DSM 3

Answer 19

More reliable and explicit criteria, but did not to comorbidities such as anxiety correlating with depression

Question 20

Describe the DSM, four

Answer 20

More scientific / neurobiology and used labels. You can see difference between mental illnesses 

More outcome measures to assess therapeutic intervention

Changing orders classified


Question 21

DSM-5 description

Answer 21

 current version an argument with a previous decisions are strong enough

DSM 4 had depression as different from grief, but DSM-V updated it as  depression, different from common stressor and loss

Question 22

How is the DSM potentially going to change?

Answer 22

1. More neuro biological approach
2.  Dimensional, rather than categorical approach.