Chapter 3, Classification and Diagnosis

Question 1

Thomas Achenback

Answer 1

Achenbach’s work yielded two broad dimensions of problems: externalizing problems and internalizing problems.

Question 2

Emil Kraepelin

Answer 2

modern attempts to classify and diagnose abnormal human behaviour began with the work of Emil Kraepelin, whose initial examination of dementia praecox (now called schizophrenia) and manic-depressive insanity (now called bipolar mood disorder) laid the foundation for current psychiatric diagnostic systems. The so-called neo-Kraepelinian approach to classification has several characteristics. These include viewing each diagnosis as a medical illness using specific criteria to define a category, and emphasizing the importance of diagnostic reliability

Question 3

Robert Spitzer