Week 4 video's

Question 1

Human setting structure

Answer 1

Any human setting is structured in a way that certain ways of thinking are possible, meaningful and likely to occur, while others are impossible, meaningless or unlikely

Question 2

Discourse

Answer 2

Difficulty to circumscribe the way in which human settings are structured. A dominant discourse will allow for and highlight some ways of thinking, while disallowing or obscuring other ways of thinking. (DSM is dominant discourse)

Question 3

Goal of discourse reflection

Answer 3

Showing current way of thinking about problems is structured by discourse with historical roots and social/ethical consequences

Put them into question and point towards alternatives

Question 4

Symptom

Answer 4

Symptoms arise from observations, deviations, problems and theories that arrive from expectations and norms in society.

Question 5

Kraepelin

Answer 5

Psychiatric disorder based on course, prognosis and etiology. He observed patients based on these three, looking for the mental disorder that caused these symptoms

Question 6

Other important causes of symptoms

Answer 6

Sociological: cultural distinction, stigma etc

Religious: influence of god

Systemic: interactions within family

Question 7

Psychoanalytic paradigm (DSM 1 & 2)

Answer 7

Discription of how disorders are expressed. Very low interreliability. Difficulty testing etc. Not reliable

Question 8

Neo-Kraepelian paradigm

Answer 8

More definate criteria. Started in 72 with Feighner criteria. Took syndromes (set of symptoms) that formed the bases of RDC. DSM 3 was created

Question 9

Pragmatic uses of DSM-5

Answer 9

Making treatment possible (Clear and easy message to client)

Hypothesis development (etiology, course, prognosis etc)

Hypothesis for treatement