Statistics for Clinical Psychology - Diagnosis

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What are the 4 D's	Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, Danger	100%
Who publishes the ICD?	World Health Organisation	100%
How many categories does the ICD assess?	100 categories	0%
What approach does the ICD have?	A criterion-based approach	0%
Who publishes the DSM?	American Psychiatry Association	0%
What is Deviance?	Behaviour or emotions that are unusual in society	0%
What is Danger?	Behaviour that could harm others or the individual	0%
Why might Davis' suggestion be a weakness?	Can be criticised for being incomplete	0%
What did Cochrane et al (1995) argue?	Classification systems themselves lead practitioners to take a Eurocentric bias (based on European ideas)	0%
What is Diagnosis?	Clinician assessing patient and deciding whether they have a mental disorder	0%
Issues with the classification system	Could be bias (Cochrane et al, 1995), Can't apply cross-culturally (Littlewood, 1992)	0%
Who suggests Duration should be added?	Davis (2009) - Increases Validity	0%
What categories does this include?	Dementia, Schizophrenia, Affective disorders and Personality disorders	0%
What are the 2 classification systems?	DSM 5 and ICD 11	0%
Strengths of Diagnosis	DSM is high in reliability (Brown, 2002), high inter-rater reliability (Pederson,2001), ICD is objective (criterion approach), Good predictive validity (Mason et al, 1997)	0%
Weaknesses of Diagnosis	Early versions had poor diagnostic reliability (Spitzer and Williams, 1985) (Hiller et al (1992), subject to clinician factors and patient factors	0%
What did Pederson (2001) find?	Found that 71% of psychiatrists agreed with the ICD 10 definition of depression when assessing 116 patients.	0%
What is concurrent validity?	If two pieces of evidence agree	0%
Why is the DSM less reductionist than the ICD?	It takes into account psychosocial factors and disability	0%
What does the DSM only assess?	Mental conditions	0%
Where is the DSM mainly used?	North America	0%
Factors that impact reliability of Diagnosis	Patient Factors and Clinician Factors	0%
Strength of 4 D's	Practical applications, holistic view	0%
What did Hiller et al (1992) find?	Reliability is in doubt for some disorders related to Schizophrenia	0%
What did Spitzer and Williams (1985) do?	Reviewed the process of Diagnosis and found that experienced psychiatrists agree 50% of the time	0%
What is the Clinical Psychology Classic Study?	Rosenhan (1973)	0%
Issues and Debates	Social control, practical issues (interviews), Psychology as a Science(relies on interviews)	0%
Weaknesses of 4 D's	Subjective - May lack Validity, lacks reliability as different professionals may have different diagnosis	0%
What did Brown (2002) do?	Tested the reliability and validity of the DSM IV for anxiety and mood disorders and found it good to excellent	0%
What did Littlewood (1992) find?	The DSM IV makes assumptions about nuclear family life that aren't applicable cross-culturally	0%
What is Distress?	The extent to which the individual finds their behaviour upsetting	0%
What did Mason et al (1997) find?	The ICD was reasonably good at predicting disability 13 years later. Therefore good predictive validity	0%
What does the DSM assess?	Type of disorder, factors along side it, psychosocial and contextual factors, disability	0%
What is Dysfunction?	When behaviour interferes with the person's day-to-day life	0%
What are patient factors?	When patients give psychiatrists slightly different information. Could lead to differing diagnosis	0%
What is aetiological validity?	When the cause is understood	0%
What are clinician factors?	When the clinicians using the classification systems aren't completely objective	0%
What is predictive validity?	When the future course of the disorder is known	0%