Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Clinical Psychology
- Diagnosis
- Deviance
- Looking for 'rare' behaviour
- Dysfunction
- Places where the
illness is effecting
their everyday life
- Distress
- How upset the
individual is.
- Danger
- Danger to
themselves and to
other people
- Evaluation.
- can be interpreted by the clinician wrongly
- hard to make
sure that the
client has
discussed
everything
- hard to define
what is truely
'deviant'
- Classification systems
- ICD
- focuses on all diseases
- MHDs are classified in section F
- uses Decimals to separate
different types of the same
disorder
- Used in Europe
- DSM
- Only has mental
health disorders
- groups them into families
- used in the UK and the USA
- reliability and validity of diagnosis
- diagnosis can be seen as unreliable as many
clinicians could diagnose the same symptoms as
different mental health disorders.
- can be solved by an inter-rater reliability
test- where two clinician agree on the
diagnosis
- patient
factors
- the patient may not be honest
about all their symptoms
because of denial, shame or
lack of memory.
- Clinician
factors
- Different types of clinicians
have different types of
qualifications and teaching.
- can lead to different
diagnosis
- can focus upon different
things on the client