Issues of classification and diagnosis of phobias
- Created by: Hannah Lynch
- Created on: 02-05-13 21:06
View mindmap
- Issues Surrounding Classification + Diagnosis of Phobias
- two classification systems
- DSM-IV
- official classification system used worldwide.
- assesses patients on the biological, psychological + social aspects of their condition.
- leads to a more informed decision by clinician
- ICD-10
- for physical AND mental conditions
- primarily descriptive document, used for classification and research, but not diagnosis
- DSM-IV
- reliability
- "each time a classification system is used, to diagnose a particular cluster of symptoms and behaviour, it should produce the same outcome"
- two different kinds
- test/retest
- when one practitioner makes the same diagnosis on separate occasions from the same information.
- inter-rater
- when several practitioners make the same diagnosis of the same patient
- test/retest
- validity
- co-morbidity
- "the extent to which two or more conditions co-occur" e.g. phobias and depression
- if they do tend to co-occur, this suggests they are not separate entities
- therefore making it hard to diagnose a treatment
- concurrent validity
- comparing one method of diagnosis to another
- culture and gender bias
- when the clinician has an unintentional tendency to certain kinds of diagnosis
- co-morbidity
- two classification systems
Similar Psychology resources:
Teacher recommended
Comments
No comments have yet been made