Mykah Sanchez PSY366 T&TH 9-10:15am Assignment 3 1. What are three differences you notice between these five different sets of diagnostic criteria? a. In the DSM-IIIR (APA, 1987) and on, the content of the obsession is not related to the actual compulsion if the patient also acquires another disorder in Axis I. In the DSM I & II, it does not specify if the compulsion is or should be related to the obsession.
DSM I and II were not cared about much in society, but DSM III saved psychiatry. It had both positive and negative effects. It created a reliance on empathy and creative intuition to understand patient’s issues. It also created a system for diagnosis and
There are five axes of the DSMA. They include axis I, axis II, axis III, axis IV, and axis V. -Axis I pertains to the present condition of a person. This axis deals with disorders/problems that need to be dealt with immediately such as a schizophrenic episode. -Axis II has to do with personality disorders and level of mental retardation, and an example of a problem that falls under axis II is paranoid personality disorder.
A physician has an unenviable position. He is closest to man approaching a god-like stature and when that god stumbles, the consequences can be disastrous. This is even more so in the field of psychiatry where the fact that mental illness exists is not disputed, but the diagnoses and treatment is often suspect. However, despite the demise of 'doctor knows best ', we still need to trust a psychiatrist since diagnosis is based on a patient 's expressed thoughts and overt behaviours rather than solely on biological phenomena. This requires not only that the patient trust the doctor, but even before that, the doctor appreciates and understands the context of those behaviours; behaviours that are influenced by the patient 's environment.
Most doctors, aside from Snow, believed the theory at the time. This collective acceptance only hindered the discovery of a cure and pushed the elitist view of social status further. “Raw social prejudice also played a role…the miasma theory was regularly invoked to justify all sorts of groundless class and ethnic biases.” (132). This quote
3. The DSM codes are noted as medical or billing codes from ICD-9-CM. The BCACC declares the RCC’s scope of practice is to “assess, evaluate, diagnose and treat behavioural, cognitive, social, mental or emotional issues, problems or disorders” (Board of Directors, 2003). This quote suggests that the RCC is qualified to read and understand the DSM-5 diagnostic codes.
Who was the American philosopher who authored a textbook in 1890 for the emerging discipline of psychology? D. “William James was a legendary teacher-writer who authored an important 1890 psychology text”.(P. 5) 6. The personality theorist, Sigmund Freud, was an Austrian B. According to online sources such as Guide Top Psychology and The Atlantic, Sigmund Freud was a physician and professor of medicine, developed his theories about psychoanalysis while studying hysteria and compulsion neurosis.
Research to date, however, casts doubt on the validity of
Because of this, the common thought was that affected people should be looked down upon or locked up. Consequently, most people with mental illnesses became homeless and poor, and many were committed to institutions called asylums (“Depression: Depression & Related Conditions,” n.d.). During the late 1700s and early 1800s, there were a variety of complex explanations for depression. People were unsure of what depression was, and for that reason, there were several attempts to try to explain what it was, although many had no idea (“Depression: Depression & Related Conditions,” n.d.). Some doctors and authors at this time suggested that aggression was the real cause of depression.
According to the American Psychiatric Association, the new DSM-V includes “changes as well as advancements in neuroscience, clinical and public health need, and identified problems with the classification system and criteria put forth in the DSM-IV”. The revised DSM-5 explores changes in diagnostic criterias that is believed to have a better clinical impact as well as demonstrating their goal to improve compatibility, and integration of cultural context. Many of these changes in the DSM-5 were to better characterize symptoms and behaviors of patients that were in need of clinical help. Their symptoms were not well classified in the previous DSM-IV. Better defining disorders, diagnosis and clinical care in the DSM-V seem to be well improved with the help of new research that have improved a better understanding of mental disorders.
The procedure's highly experimental approach "lacked coherent medical theories" to explain it (Rochefort 31). This made the Mental Health system rely mostly on predictions and luck rather than actual science. Direct observation of the brain is not possible and was very limited in the 1940's. As result it was difficult to even justify the theories.
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a new manual called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), to be used by doctors and other health care professionals to diagnose ADHD in children and adults. This manual serves as a guide for the healthcare practitioners, to lay out the criteria when conducting diagnoses of ADHD in an individual. The recent edition of the manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) was produced to change, how ADHD is diagnosed in children and adults particularly the causes of ADHD, the symptom description, and the awareness on the use of information about the disorder in children and adults. Studies have shown
DMS II reflected the predominant psychodynamic psychiatry. The main problem with this was the lack of an objective and reliable system for describing psychopathology and determining the diagnosis. DMS III (1980), in 1974, they decided to create a new revision of the DMS and Robert Spitzer was elected as the chairman of the task force. The psychodynamic or physiological view was abandoned in favour of legislative model. Innovations of DMS III include a provision of the definition of mental disorder, presentation of diagnostic criteria for each disorder, an introduction of the multiaxial diagnostic format, redefining several major disorders, for instance, elimination of neurosis, addition of new diagnostic categories, like personality disorders and presentation of a hierarchical organization of diagnostic categories.
Contributions to Psychology Sigmund Freud was the first who use the term psychoanalysis in 1896. From that point his theories blossomed. Freud did not invent the terms unconscious, conscious or conscience. However he was successful in making them popular. Freud attained this through his theory of psychological reality, id, ego, and superego.
In 1896, Witmer opened the first psychology clinic, which catered to children with disabilities. In 1907, he coined the phrase "clinical psychology" in his new psychology journal, called
