To help create accurate diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Ment

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To help create accurate diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: groups disorders frst by culture, then by severity O describes disorders in terms of observable symptoms groups disorders by the theorist who discovered them O classifies each disorder as either neurotic" or "psychotic" A new initiative by the National Institute of Mental Health, RDoc. focuses on: O improving the accuracy of disorder diagnosis refining disorder categories to reduce overlap o the dimensional nature of psychopathology studying domains of functioning across disorders Dr. Taylor is seeing a depressed patient who is currently undergoing a relationship breakup. Dr. Taylor ale that as a child this patient suffered from both neglect and abuse. Dr. Taylor believes that the patient's dif childhood has predisposed her to overreact to life circumstances, such as the recent breakup, resulting in

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Ans. 1) Describes disorders in term of observable symptoms.

Basically, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by American Psychiatric Association (APA) which provides a standard classification of mental disorders on the basis of symptoms and clinical examination.

Ans. 2) The dimensional nature of psychology.

Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) mainly focuses on observable behavior and neurobiological procedures. It is a dimensional system based on the dimensions that span the array from normal to abnormal. Many mental disorders could also be thought-about as falling on multiple symptoms or dimensions like cognition, mood swing, social interactions, with traits that is present from normal to severe patients. Presence of several mental disorders with varied symptoms may hinder the diagnostic procedure that eventually causes greater risk for the mental health of the individual. Hence it is very important to clearly identify the different dimension of a disorder.

Ans. 5) Decreased testosterone and oxytocin production.

These hormones are sex hormone. They are not involved in causing depression.

Ans. 6) Contrary to the popular opinion, gender and depression are not related.

It is true that women are more tends to depressed than theirs man counterparts. But there is no scientific fact to prove this assumption.

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