Pyschiatrics

Question 1

Identify motivating factors for classifying psychiatric illnesses

Answer 1

1. To guide treatment choices
2. To allow clinicians to communicate
3. To serve parties who require a diagnosis (insurance)
4. To permit research (via categorization)
   a) causes
   b) treatment
   c) pronosis

Question 2

Name the 3 components a condition must have to be included in the DSM

Answer 2

1. must have a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
2. relects dysfunction in the psychological , biological, or development processes underlying mental disfunction.
3. associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities.

Question 3

Recognize criticisms of the DSM criteria

Answer 3

• Level of detail:
  some have way more detail than others.
• Overlap:
  2 people could be diagnosed with the saem thing and have no overlapping symptoms
  2 people could have different illnesses and the same symptoms.
• Authority:
  Who judges the distress/impairment
• Comparative
  to self, normative, none

Question 4

Define normative assumptions, deilnstitutionalization, and recogonize these in historical examples and trends

Answer 4

• Normative assumptions is the evaluation of right or wrong, uses words like should. Masturbation is bad. homosexuality
• Descriptive assumptions use things like is or would be.
• Deinstitutionalization: in 1950/60 replaced long-stay facilites with community mental health services, possible because of drugs. without adequate support hese people are at higher risk of unhousing and prison.

Question 5

Comment on the relationship between mental illness and violence

Answer 5

absence of people with substance use disorder people with mental illness are NOT more violent to others in the same neighbourhoods.