Dm Model

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1. DSM is for billing and accurate diagnosis in mental health.
2. Thomas Sydnum came up with the ideas of syndromes to be used for many years.
3. DSM started in the 1950’s and had has many editions, working groups sit down and have input on the classifications.
4. Psychology started in Germany and grew up in the Unites States and other European countries.
5. Demon model, people behave because they are possessed which can be from demons or spirits or witches, etc., exorcism was used to cure the demon out by using pre Christian ways.
6. Trepanning was a way to release the demons, and there were cultures all around the world that used this method.
7. In ancient Greece 4th century BC to the 5th century AD the medical model number one happens,
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During the Middle Ages the mental health strayed back to the demon model, the streets became over run with the mentally ill so insane asylums were built, in these asylums the people were treated like animals.
1. DSM is the guide book to all psychiatric practitioners.
2. DSM should be used a guideline for diagnosis but not an absolute.
3. The DSM is not perfect because we do not know everything about the brain and mental health, and has limits.
4. Doctors and mental health professionals are able to treat the patients the same way and are able to get the services that they need.
5. The DSM is what we know about the human mental health and not what we assume we know.
6. Identifying and subdividing is increased with the newer editions, and more ways to help patients from research.
7. Critics think that the downside of diagnosis in the DSM is that it tries to pathologize normal behavior.
8. Dr. Allen Frances says that DSM 5 is making people who are not mentally ill qualify for disorders that they do not have.
9. Symantec system disorder was changed making the patient qualify for a mental disorder if they have an illness and worry about it.
10. 1 out of 5 adults takes a medication every day, and sales of antidepressants are 12 billion dollars a

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