Abnormal Psych Practice

Comorbidity:

• death due to a disorder

• the idea that often there is more than one disorder that influences a person's behaviour

• the extent to which a diagnosis is accurate.

• a group of people in therapy with the same disorder

Confirmation bias

• when another clinician confirms a diagnosis

• assuming a certain group of people are more likely to show risk factors than others

• when a clinician continually disgnoses clients with the same disorder

• when a researcher is biased by his/her own hypothesis

Culture bound syndromes

• The disorders that women who had their feet bound in China suffered from

• Combination of psychiatric/somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture

• Cross cultural differnces in diagnosis of syndromes

• When a client's behaviour is interpreted only through the cultural perspective of the researcher

Validity

• when a person is less likely to be diagnosed with a specific disorder simply because of gender, culture or age.

• when different psychiatrists agree on a client's diagnosis using the same diagnostic system.

• how valuable a diagnosis is to the patient

• the extent to which a diagnosis is accurate

Jahonda (1958) identified how many characteristics of mental health?

• 4

• 6

• 5

• 8

The DSM-5 is...?

• A standarised classification system for diagnosis

• A dictionary of mental illness

• An IB text book

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mad People

An example of an affective disorder is

• PTSD

• MDD

• Anorexia Nervosa

• OCD

Which of the following is not a classification system for mental disorders used in the world today?

• CCMD - 3

• DSM - 5

• ICD-10

• LSD-4

The model of abnormality that looks at each disorder and establishes a set of symptoms to define it:

• Johanda's model

• Rosenhal

• medical model

• none of the above

Which of the following would be a limitation of the medical model of abnormality?

• Mental disorders are much more difficult to diagnose than physical disease.

• The lack of reliability

• Comorbidity and/or the difficulty of delineation . That is, some symptoms overlap

• All of the above