Classification of mental disorders

Mental illness is a multi-faceted category filled with multiple variations to its definition. When people are vulnerable and need an understanding of their symptoms, they look to medical professionals for direction. As a start, diagnosis provides a key stepping stone leads to the development of effective treatment plans. While diagnosis can help clinicians understand the roots of an illness and administer a treatment that has been replicated on other similar patients, it can be detrimental to…

other peoples’ rights and the general law is the common feature of antisocial personality disorder victims, commonly known as the ASPD. The existence of an association between these disorders and the criminal justice, law and together with the field of forensic psychology is based on the fact that, the actions of people with such disorders are associated with criminal acts and violent behavior. The disorders affect the individual’s attitudinal tendencies, cognitive and emotions and can be caused…

Judicial death is an embarrassment to this country and should not be a sensible chastisement for persons with an intellectually handicap. By partaking in this inhuman act, and having it legalized in thirty one of the fifty states is ghastly. Society has long been ambivalent about psychological illnesses; and the fight has always been to treat mentally ill people as equals, but if an individual’s IQ is not even up to par with an average aptitude rating, this said person should not be eligible to…

diagnosed mental disorder that impacts their ability to control their own behaviors and/or fully appreciate or comprehend that their actions were wrong, illegal or prohibited. ForensicPsychology is a clinical psychology that interconnects two types of psychological service including the psychological evaluation and assessment as well as the rehabilitation of convicted criminals once in the prison system(citation). The “Insanity Defense” is based on evaluations and the diagnosis by forensic…

schizophrenia and was previously understood as a psychomotor symptom under the psychotic disorder. However, catatonia lacks the characteristic delusions, hallucinations, and disturbances in thought of schizophrenia and exhibits closer ties to the communication deficiencies and self-injurious behaviors of autism. Recent research and revised diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 have disassociated the two disorders, categorizing them with two separate but interrelated criterion. Revaluation serves to…

diagnose, and classify psychological disorders? Validity is an important topic for the development of modern psychiatry. It is used to examine truth or falsity of scientific propositions. Diagnosis is important to everything that is done in the medicine field. It is critical for applying effective and appropriate treatment for any disorder. It also allows clinicians and scientists to have communication in regards to diseases. Before the systems of diagnostic classification were organized, the…

world of Psychology there are many different mental disorders that have been throughly studied. One of these, Anti Social Personality Disorder, has been studied for many years and very indepth. Anti Social Personality Disorder is a mental disorder described as “a type of chronic mental condition in which a person's ways of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others are dysfunctional — and destructive.” People with Anti Social Personality Disorder typically have no regard for what…

own theories for classification of mental disorders. Now in its fifth edition, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) offers general criteria to diagnose psychiatric disorders. “DSM-5 takes a non-axial documentation approach, combining the first three DSM-IV-TR Axes into one list, while separate notation for Axes IV and V also have been made, covering psychosocial and environmental factors, as well as disability” (Madra, 2013, p.5) To treat mental disorders, theories…

Anxiety disorders are some of the most common mental disorders in society today, but they are still very misunderstood even by mental health professionals. Modern society has solved many of the mysteries surrounding anxiety disorders because of technological advancement, and more people than ever are receiving treatment for their anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders are characterized by a long and dark history, complex causes, several distinct groups, and effective treatment with medication and…

Anxiety disorders are considered a group of related but very distinct mental conditions with specific diagnostic classifications and criteria as established by the American Psychiatric Association in DSM-5. Anxiety disorders are constellation of disorders with persistent features of excessive fear, anxiety, and associated behavioral disorders (Uphold & Graham, 2013). One of the twelve common anxiety disorders is Panic disorder. Panic disorder is a syndrome described by recurrent, acute, and…