Week 1 Flashcards
(22 cards)
What is Idiosyncratic?
Everyone’s individual pathway to psychopathology
What is Phenomenological?
a philosophical and psychological discipline or qualitative research method
Morality
Death
Comorbidity
more than one illness
Iterative (changes to the DSM)
Small changes over time
Seismic
large changes (not like the DSM)
Atypical
Unspecified diagnosis
Aggregate
combine data or look at a larger picture
Spectrum (NOT the same as Dimensional)
all disorders can relate together, much like the larger categories of the DSM such as Depressive, Stress and Trauma Related, Psychotic etc.
What WAS axis I
Emotional disorders
What WAS axis II
Personality disorder
What does ICD stand for and what does this system do?
International Classification of Diseases.
It is a medical (with mental illness) diagnostic tool used internationally for coding and categorizing medical issues/diseases
Key aspects of Pre-Kraepelinian Diagnosis
We were shooting in the dark
No way to understand symptoms or what caused them
We often thought it was religious or spiritual (Possession)
What are Constructs
psychological phenomena that exist but do not have physical form
What is “Carving up the pie”
adding layers of complexity to the data and the belief that each person and story is different even if they have the same or similar symptoms
Problems with categorical
monothetic criteria sets require all symptoms to be present to meet diagnostic classifications
the monothetic model tends to result in higher interrater reliability but it has overly restrictive criteria for diagnosis
Polythetic Model
The DSM 5 TR is polythetic
a set number of symptoms out of many
Categorical vs Dimensional
categorical approach works best when all members of a diagnostic class are homogenous
Categorical criteria sets have been criticized for excessive co-morbidity, poor discriminant validity, lack of reliability, and indiscriminate diagnostic cut-offs
Dimensionally based models are developed with continuous factors that allow symptoms to be described quantitatively along continuums
Development of the DSM5
Took over 12 years
expert review, public commentary, and independent peer review
13 Workgroups, under the direction of the DSM-5 Task Force
Road to Rome
How and why someone develops psychopathology
What is Rome
Rome is the psychopathology
What is the road
what genetic and environmental factors lead them down the path to psychopathology
