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Axis 1 of the DSM-IV Multi-axial Diagnostic System and example
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Clinical Disorders-other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention.
Ex. Major depressive disorder, recurrent This is one of the diagnositc axes |
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Axis 2 of the DSM-IV Multi-axial Diagnostic System and example
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Personality Disorders
Ex. OCD Personality Disorder This is one of the diagnostic axes |
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Axis 3 of the DSM-IV Multi-axial Diagnostic System and example
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General Medical Conditions
Ex. Diabetes This is one of the diagnostic axes |
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Axis 4 of the DSM-IV Multi-axial Diagnostic System and example
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Psychosocial and environmental problems
Ex. Problems with primary support group-divorce This is considered an "Other Domain for Assessment." |
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Axis 5 of the DSM-IV Multi-axial Diagnostic System and example
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Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF): currently and at highest level the past year.
Ex. Current GAF: 55; Highest GAF past year: 80 |
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What are the names and copyright dates of the different DSMs?
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DSM I - 1952
DSM II - 1968 DSM III - 1980 DSM III-R - 1987 DSM IV - 1994 DSM IV-TR - 2000 DSM V - 2013 (est.) |
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What are the two major approaches to diagnostic psychopathology?
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1. Descriptive
2. Psychological |
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Define the descriptive approach to diagnostic psychopathology.
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Diagnoses are based on relatively objective phenomena that requre nominal clinical inference. These phenomena include signs, symptoms, and natural history.
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Define the psychological approach to diagnostic psychopathology.
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Diagnoses are based primarily on inferred causes and mechanisms. This approach also considers descriptive phenomena, but as merely superficial manifestations of more profound underlying forces.
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What dominated American Psychiatry until the DSM III (1980)?
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The Psychological Approach
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The simple difference between the two approaches is...
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The descriptive approach focuses on the what of behavior while the psychological approach focuses on the why.
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Discuss the role of heredity in mental disorders.
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Genetic factors are prerequisites for most (but not all) cases of schizophrenia, manic depression, and, somewhat less, for major depression. Heredity partly contributes to panic and OCD but appears to be less implicated in GAD.
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Three relationships between the environment and mental disorders are...
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1. Biological effects from the environment
2. Psychosocial trauma-inducing biological changes 3. Genotypes and phenotypes |
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What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?
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The gene structure itself is the genotype; how this gene is expressed (this is if it becomes manifest) is the phenotype.
When a person inherits the genotype for a mental disorder, how the person's environment affects that gene determines the degree, form, and existence of the disorder. If a person inherits the genotype for a mental disorder, other "protective" genes or biological and pyschological interventions can sill alleviate or prevent it. |
