Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
November, 2013
schizophrenia spectrum disorders definition
Schizophrenia is a familial disorder and that genetic influences are involved in the clustering of schizophrenia in families. The liability to schizophrenia seems to be manifested in families not only through the occurrence of the classical disorder, but through other related phenotypes as well. That is, the predisposition to schizophrenia may be expressed in a […]
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dsm-iv diagnosis example
In DSM-IV, the criteria set for schizoaffective disorder ‘‘has been changed to focus on an uninterrupted episode of illness rather than on the lifetime pattern of symptoms’’. Obviously, there are significant differences in validity and reliability of diagnosis among diagnostic categories. In recent years, some of the personality diagnoses such as narcissistic personality disorder or […]
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dsm-iii-r criteria definition
The DSM-III-R defining features (impaired social interaction, communication, and stereotyped patterns of behavior) are retained in DSM-IV, but the individual items and the overall diagnostic algorithm have been modified to (1) improve clinical utility by reducing the number of items from 16 to 12 and by increasing the clarity of individual items; (2) increase compatibility […]
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dsm iv diagnosis codes for mental health
The Recent DSMs-III, III-R, AND IV As already noted, there has been considerable activity in recent years in forming new psychiatric diagnostic systems. Three revised diagnostic manuals have been published in just 14 years. Furthermore, these manuals were considerably larger than their predecessors, and the approach and methods for producing them differed in important ways. […]
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Reliability and Validity of Clinical Diagnosis
Reliability and Validity of Clinical Diagnosis As indicated, clinical diagnosis usually results in a specific categorization or label. After the patient has been appraised, the clinician offers a diagnosis (e.g., schizophrenia, paranoid type). If the diagnosis reflects a specific disease process that is known and understood, there is a reasonable probability that most diagnosticians might […]
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Clinical Diagnosis Axis
Clinical Diagnosis: Some Possible Meanings Before discussing some of the methodological problems and issues in clinical diagnosis, it is important to discuss briefly the possible meanings or interpretations attached to this term. Traditionally, clinical diagnosis has referred to discovering, describing, and designating a specific illness or disease. Deriving from the field of medicine, it has […]
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Abnormal Behavior in Psychology
Psychiatric Approaches The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III, DSM-III-R, and IV). The first two editions of the American Psychiatric Association’s classification scheme were uniformly unsatisfactory and subject to valid theoretical and practical criticism. Begelman summarized a number of published articles and derived a fairly comprehensive list of criticisms. In […]
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interpersonal diagnosis of personality
McLemore and Benjamin proposed an interpersonal behavior taxonomy, based on their contention that useful aspects of psychiatric diagnostic schemata are psychosocial and that most diagnoses of ‘‘functional mental disorders’’ are made on the basis of observed interpersonal behavior. Interpersonal is described as what ‘‘one person does, overtly or covertly, in relation to another person who, […]
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learning taxonomy worksheets
Albert Bandura delineated a social learning model for classifying psychological dysfunctions as an alternative to the medical or disease model. In essence, a social learning taxonomy of psychopathology observes the interaction between behavioral predispositions (subject variables) and stimulus events. An analysis of this type, according to Bandura, can help to explain the acquisition and maintenance […]
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Evaluation and Methods of Classification on abnormal behavior
Classification research for the development of classification schemes requires a framework for describing the approach to and evaluating classif ication schemes. In evaluation, there are four major aspects that are very important in producing a reliable and valid classification system: 1.The classification system should be reliable and consistent from user to user (interrater agreement) and […]
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