Introduction

Question 1

DSM-5

Diagnostic and Scientific Manual of Mental Disorders

Answer 1

Provides classification based on scientific research to assist evidence-based treatment. This specifies an array of different meanings as they are interpreted worldwide into one classification. It allows research to be compared and thus developed communally

Question 2

Risks of Classification

Answer 2

• risk of stigma
• risk of patients playing into their diagnosis
• trivialise patient experience (although it removes isolation)

Question 3

Changes to DSM-5

Answer 3

It now has a more dimensional approach that doesn’t over-categorise and seperates conditions/diagnoses, qualitative rather than quantitative

Question 4

Behavioural Assessment

Answer 4

Direct observation of an individual’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour in specific context.

Question 5

dimensional approach

Answer 5

method of categorising characteristics on a continuum rather than on a binary, either-or basis

Question 6

categorical approach

Answer 6

founded on the assumptions of clear-cut differences among disorders, each with different known cause.
- pure/classical categorical approach