ILOs
- Explain key definitions used for classification during diagnosis.
- Explain the importance of classification.
- Understand psychiatric classification
- Understand the use of ICD and the DSM
- Some key definitions to know...
- Why’s it important we classify conditions?
- What makes a good classification system?
- How do we classify conditions in psychiatry and medicine?
- What’s the difficulty with psychiatric classification?
- What should classifications be based on, ideally?
- What is a categorical approach to classification?
- How do we distinguish betwen organic and functional conditions?
- What do we mean by psychiatric classifications being dimensional?
- What do we mean by psychiatric classification being hierarchical?
- What are the two main classification systems in psychiatry?
- Why are the classification systems needed?
- What are the problems with these classification systems?
- What are the future of the classification systems?