Advanced Psychopathology
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Advanced
Psychopathology
Defining the Phenomena
Example
30 y/o male
Experiences depressed mood every day for 1 month
(sad, cries for no reason)
Wakes up two hours before his alarm goes off and can’t
get back to sleep
Has lost 12 pounds because he doesn’t eat consistently
Has forgotten three meetings at work and can’t
concentrate
Reports that he would be better off dead
Psychopathology
Statistical Deviance
Maladaptive Behavior
Conceptual Definition? How Deviant?
Context
Distress/Dysfunction
Social Deviance
Harmful Dysfunction
Harmful according to culture
Failure of a mental mechanism
Psychopathology
What is real when it comes to psychopathology?
Suffering
Is suffering pathological?
The problem of subjectivity
Theory vs. Conception
Explanation vs. A Description of that to be explained
Psych Disorders
The accepted descriptions of our society
representing agreed-upon abstractions of
psychopathology
Social Constructionism vs. Essentialism
Why do we diagnose?
Professional/Client Communication
Sick role
Research
Reimbursement
Psychopathology vs. Disorder
DSM-5 Mental Disorder
… a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in
an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation or behavior that
reflects a dysfunction in psychological, biological or developmental
processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are
usually associated with significant distress or disability in social,
occupational or other important activities. An expectable or
culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss such as
death of a loved one is not a mental disorder. Socially deviant
behavior (e.g., political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts that are
primarily between the individual and society are not mental
disorders unless the deviance or conflict results from a dysfunction
in the individual as described above.
DSM-5
A list and description that we believe to fit the
proposed definition of a mental disorder.
DSM IV is a “prototypical” system
Categorical vs. Dimensional
Many manifestations of disorders
Diagnosis
How do we come by a diagnosis?
ASSESSMENT
Diagnostic Assessment
Structured vs. Unstructured
Inventories
Structured Interviews
Almost always done w/a clinical interview
Clinical Interview
Presenting Problem
History of Presenting Problem
When did it start, how severe, what is the functional impact?
Developmental History
What is their perception of why they have come in?
What’s the problem behavior, thoughts, or emotions
Family of origin
Academic
Employment
Personal relationships
Alcohol/Drug
Medical History – Major or recent medical issues/illnesses
Treatment History – Therapy, medication, hospitalizations
Clinical Interview
Within each content area your job is not only to
get the info put to ask questions that allow you
to differentiate “symptoms” so that a diagnosis
emerges
Addressing these areas paints a picture of that
person.
From that picture you abstract a diagnosis
Bias in Diagnosis
Biased Constructs
Ethnocentric Construction of Idealized Self
Self- Control (Very Western)
Biased Application
Based on race, class, gender
Biased Sampling
Influence of bias factors on presentation to
assessment/treatment
The importance and the problem of BASE RATES
Biased Instruments
DIF
Biased Criteria
Why don’t we have “delusional dominating PD?”
Your goal
To learn the system well enough so that during
an interview you will hear info that will allow
you to generate a list of possible disorders
With that list you then ask questions to rule out
disorders until you come to the one that best
describes their suffering.