Exam 3: Classification and Diagnosis

A first-time father is reporting a great deal of anxiety surrounding his new role as a parent.A psychologist using a developmental psychopathology approach would first:

Classification __________ refers to the usefulness of a classification scheme.

Longitudinal research of depression rates in adulthood indicate that rates of depressive symptoms are

Research has categorized children's difficulties into two broad dimensions of problems: internalizing and externalizing.Internalizing problems refer to

Schizophrenia was not included in the World Health Organization Mental Health Survey Consortium 2004),however,researchers were not so concerned because

A DSM diagnosis with questionable validity is:

Health care providers often find it necessary and helpful to diagnose patients because:

The underlying assumption of the categorical approach to categorization is that there is an important __________difference between objects that are members of a category and those that are not.

________ refers to the extent to which the classification system reflects reality,whereas ______ refers to the usefulness of the classification system for directing treatment.

Within the biopsychosocial model of the etiology of mental disorders,the contributions of biological,psychological,and social factors are likely to ________ from disorder to disorder,and may _________ over the course of life.

One shortcoming of the original Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM; 1952)was that

The underlying assumption of the dimensional approach to categorization is there is an important _________ difference between objects in the extent to which they possess certain characteristics or properties.

In the past few decades,classification of psychiatric disorders has been augmented with elements of a prototype model.When applied to psychiatric diagnosis,this implies that

In determining whether a person meets criteria for a diagnosis a of mental disorder,clinical psychologists rely primarily on

An important consideration in diagnostic reliability is the _______ of individuals with the same diagnosis,as this could impact inter-rater reliability,and contribute to ______ in treatment response.

Which of the following is known as 'a family of empirically derived assessment tools to measure competence and problems internalizing and externalizing)across the lifespan?'

Criticism of the DSM-5 is based predominantly on

Hammen,Shih,and Brennan 2004)examined intergenerational transmission of depression among Australian adolescents and their mothers.What did the researchers find?

Widiger defined the concept of _______ which refers to the impairment resulting from a disorder that is involuntary or not readily managed.

The classification approach that is based on the assumption that entities that are members of a category are qualitatively different from those that are not is known as the