1. Psychiatric diagnoses
2. Personality disorders
3. General medical conditions
4. Environmental stress
5. Global functioning (in society without help)
+ Integrative approach with greater cultural sensitivity:
Recognise some cultures exhibit + explain symptoms differently
from others
Distress expressed differently
= addressed to acknowledge cultural manifestation of
symptoms Culture bound syndromes: understood differently in
different cultures
+ Less reductionist , more holistic by looking at complete health picture
rather than defining them as set of symptoms
DSM V
Abolish 5 axes: artificial , hard to draw links btw different symptoms
3 sections :
1. Introduction to manual + how it’s organised
2. List of mental disorders
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