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psychopathology
a significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that indicates a dysfunction in mental functioning
-usually associated with a significant distress or disability in work, relationships, or other areas of functioning
Jerome Wakefield’s view of psychopathology
harmful dysfunction theory: a theory of psychopathology stating that the definition of disorder should include aspects of harmfulness (which is more socially determined) and dysfunction (which is more scientifically determined).
Who is involved in the creation of the diagnostic categories in the DSM?
-task force
-published by American Psychiatric Association
-follows a medical model of psychopathology
-each disorder defined categorically and features list of specific symptoms
DSM I (1952) and II (1968)
-very similar in content
-only 3 broad categories of disorders:
psychoses (schizophrenia)
neuroses (depression, bipolar, anxiety disorders)
character disorders (personality disorders)
-psychoanalytic
-did not provide diagnostic criteria
-not empirically based
DSM-III (1980)
-relied on empirical data to determine which disorders to include and how to define them
-specific diagnostic criteria to define disorders
-atheoretical
-much longer/more extensive: 265 new disorders added
-introduced multiaxial system (dropped in DSM-5)
DSM IV (2000) retained most of these major changes
DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR
