Categorising Mental Disorders
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- Created on: 13-06-22 17:25
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- Categorising Mental Disorders
- ICD
- The International Classification of Disorders
- devised by the World Health Organisation and used worldwide
- has 22 chapters (Chapter V is the one on mental disorders)
- identifies main and secondary symptoms
- The currently used ICD is the ICD-10
- DSM
- The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- mostly used in America as it was made by the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
- Looks at 3 aspects of mental health: Medical and Mental Health Conditions, Psychosocial and Contextual Factors (environment), Functioning and Disability?
- It divides disorders into subtypes e.g. anxiety disorders, personality disorders, depressive disorders.
- The current DSM used is the DSM-5
- What is categorising mental disorders?
- looking at the symptoms a person has and then deciding what type of mental illness they have
- ICD
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