Diagnosis

Question 1

What is differential diagnosis (DDx)?

Answer 1

determining likelihood of 1 diagnosis vs a different diagnosis
- a stuffy nose could be… cold, flu, allergies, COVID

Question 2

Comorbid/Comorbidity is?

Answer 2

the presence of 2 or more disorders in the same person

Question 3

What is chronic?

Answer 3

lasts a long time

Question 4

What is acute?

Answer 4

lasts a short time

Question 5

What is a prognosis?

Answer 5

predicted course and outcome

Question 6

What is etiology?

Answer 6

causes of the condition

Question 7

What are the 3 D’s?

Answer 7

dysfunction, distress, and death/danger

Question 8

What are the 3 factors that categorize behavior?

Answer 8

1. antecedent behavior
2. concurrent validators
3. predictive validators

Question 9

What are antecedent validators?

Answer 9

what was pre-existing before the condition

Question 10

What are concurrent validators?

Answer 10

what was happening at the time of the condition, what was co-existing

Question 11

What are predictive validators?

Answer 11

do they respond to the same treatments, how to improve the future

Question 12

What is the DSM reliant on?

Answer 12

empirical data, research

Question 13

What are some criticisms of the DSM?

Answer 13

• over pathologize the human experience?
• secrecy
• is it harmful to marginalized people?
• categorization, what is normal?

Question 14

What is the culture idiom of distress?

Answer 14

knowledgeable and thoughtful of how people talk about their suffering

Question 15

What is cultural syndrome?

Answer 15

ways and which distress is manifested in a nonwestern context

Question 16

What is the process of the culture formulation interview?

Answer 16

• understand the day to day
• what do they think is the cause
• what have they done to cope
• what preferences for care

Question 17

What is the International Classification of Disease (ICD-11)?

Answer 17

written by the WHO, contains all conditions including diseases and mental health