DSM Flashcards
Everything you need to know about the DSM and the important revisions of the different editions. (41 cards)
What is the full term of DSM?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
As of 2018, what is the latest edition of the DSM?
Fifth Edition
Who is the Task Force Chair who managed the different groups who produced the DSM-5?
David J. Kupfer, MD
How many Sections does the DSM-V have?
3
What group came up with the DSM?
American Psychiatric Association
When was the first DSM published?
1844
It served as a statistical classifier of institutionalized mental patients in different hospitals.
First edition of the DSM
It is a system designed to share goals of creating clearer criteria of mental disorders to improve clinical utility and organizational structure.
ICD or International Classification of Disorders
Who is the group who established ICD?
World Health Organization (WHO)
During the DSM-iii, challenges for clinicians and scientists about the description of disorders emerged. It is because of high rates of comorbidity within DSM chapters thus making it difficult to diagnose. What terminology was used for criteria that cannot be placed in a specific disorder or criteria that doesn’t meet any specific category within a diagnostic class?
the Not Otherwise Specified (NOR) designation.
What are the four principles that guided the DSM-V revisions?
- It is intended to be a manual and revisions must be feasible for routine clinical practice
- Revisions should be guided by research evidence
- Continuity should be maintained with previous editions
- No a priori constraints should be placed on the degree of change between DSM-iv and DSM-v
What is a classification of mental disorders with associated criteria designed to facilitate more reliable diagnoses of disorders?
the DSM or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
What are the Two factors when used in clustering of disorders, represents an empirically supported framework?
Internalizing group & Externalizing Group
It is a factor representing disorders characterized by depressed mood, anxiety, and related physiological and cognitive symptoms. When this construct is placed, it should aid in developing new diagnostic and dimensional approaches while the biological markers are also identified and facilitated. What factor is this?
Internalizing group
It is a factor representing disorders exhibiting antisocial behavior, conduct disturbances, addictions, impulse-control disorders that aids in identifying diagnoses, markers, and underlying mechanisms. What factor is it?
Externalizing group
This provides interpretive frameworks that shape the experience, expression of the symptoms, signs, and behaviors that are criteria for diagnosis. It may also provide coping strategies, suggest help seeking, and influence acceptance or rejection of a diagnosis. What is it?
Culture
In the DSM-V, culture affects the conduct of the clinical encounter. What culture issue construct has been present in the previous edition/s of the DSM and is now replaced with three concepts about cultural issues?
Culture-bound syndrome
What are the three constructs that are newly placed in the DSM-V that is helpful in suggesting cultural ways of understanding and is a key interest of cultural psychiatry research pertaining to cultural issues?
- Cultural Syndrome
- Cultural idiom of distress
- Cultural explanation or Perceived cause
Another factor that relates to the causes and expression of medical conditions. This factor solely focuses in the individual’s variation resulting from biological sex, his/her individual’s self-representation and how they may be at risk of a disorder because of this. What factor is it?
Gender Difference
What is the variation attributed to an individual’s reproductive organs called?
Sex Differences
In the DSM-v, NOS has been replaced and divided into two terms used for clinical use. What are they?
Other Specified Disorder and Unspecified Disorder.
It is one of the category that replaced NOS and is used by the clinician to describe that the specific reason does not meet the criteria for anyaa specific category within a diagnostic class. This term is also used when there is evidence to specify the nature of the clinical presentation but not enough to plaxe it in a class. What is it?
Other Specified Disorder
When the clinician isn’t able to further specify and describe the clinical presentation, what term is given to the disorder if you use its DSM-V term instead of NOS ?
Unspecified Disorder
It is a group of co-occuring relatively invariant symptoms found in a specific cultural group thay may not be recognized as illness within the culture but is recognizable by outside observers. What is it?
Cultural Syndrome