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Systems of Diagnosis Flashcards

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1
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What was developed specifically for psychiatry and mental health?

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The DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

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What was the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) specifically developed for?

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Psychiatry and mental health.

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What are the 3 main aims of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual)?

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  1. Provide necessary criteria for differential diagnosis.
  2. Distinguish true illness/pathology from simple everyday problems.
  3. Systematic diagnostic criteria for consistency across clinicians.
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What 3 things does the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) do for each disorder?

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  1. Describes features of each disorder.
  2. Gives specific diagnostic criteria.
  3. Tips on how to differentiate one from another.
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What are diagnoses from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) made on?

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Entirely on reported or observed behaviours.

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What does the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) not discuss?

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Causes of the disorder.

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What are some ‘consequences’ of diagnosis?

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The patient may feel a release of guilt.

The patient may feel discriminated against (employment, child custody).

Stigma.

Loss of personal meaning.

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What does a diagnosis assume?

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There is a disease entity which you are trying to label and discover.

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What does case formulation mean?

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The person and their lives have some problems why you are describing in a systematic way.

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Diagnosis is about deciding what disease a person has by trying to _______ to measure against the critera.

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Elicit symptoms.

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Formulation does not assume disease is _______ or ______.

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Present or absent.

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Formulation describes the persons _______ and ______.

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Situation and behaviours.

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Formulation has to go beyond ___________.

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Simply labeling and diagnosis.

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Formulation has to go beyond simply labeling and diagnosis to _________.

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Understanding the cognition and learned habits that maintain he problem symptoms.

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What does formulation suggest about how a service user’s difficulties work?

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It suggests how a server user’s difficulties may relate to one another.

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Formulation suggests about how a service user’s difficulties may relate to one another by drawing on ______.

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Psychological theories and principles.

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What does formulation aim to explain?

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The development and maintenance of the service user’s difficulties.

18
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What does a formulation want to indicate? And what is it based on?

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A plan of intervention based in the psychological processes and principles already identified.

19
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Case formulation aims to summarize ______.

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The service user’s core problems.

20
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What did the World Health Organisation (WHO) define mental health as in 2018?

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‘A state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.’

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Who defined mental health as ‘A state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community’ and in what year?

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World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2018.

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What are some limitations of diagnosis?

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Based on observation of groups rather than individuals.

Experiences of a given disorder differ.

Under-representation of social/contextual factors.

Effectiveness of treatment is highly variable.

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What did Thompkins define ‘Case Formulation’ as in 2007?

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‘A hypothesis about the patient’s disorders and problems and which is used as the basis for intervention’.

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Who defined case formulation as ‘A hypothesis about the patient’s disorders and problems and which is used as the basis for intervention’ and in what year?

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Thompkins in 2007.

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