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Clinical Psychology
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clinical psychlogy- diagnosis
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psychology
clinical psychology
science
psychology
a-level
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Celeste Drouin-Davis
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Celeste Drouin-Davis
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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
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