Diagnosis

• Validity of diagnosis is if the diagnosis is done with another tool then same diagnosis must be reached for validity
• DSM-V is the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used in america.
• Reliability of diagnosis is whether one person's set symptoms would lead to a common diagnosis by different psychiatrists.
• ICD-10 is the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision used mostly in Europe
• The two types of diagnostic classification systems are the DSM and ICD.
• The DSM has been criticised as it does not take into account cultural differences and can be influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
• Dysfunction: Abnormal behaviour significantly interfering with everyday tasks and living life.
• Distress: Emotional suffering or discomfort caused by psychological factors.
• Danger: behaviour that could harm or put at risk the individual or others around them
• Deviance: Unusual behaviour that goes against the norms and values of society.
• Statistical abnormality is behaviour that is statistically rare
• Social abnormality: states that behaviour which conforms to social norms and behaviour that is abnormal
• The 4D's of diagnosis are deviance, distress, dysfunction and danger.