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P/PS/108. Psychological disorders: issues of classification

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1500
DATE:
2006
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19.99 GBP

The paper examines the issue of classifying psychological disorders defining the meaning of classification, describing DSM-IV classification system for psychological disorders, highlighting the importance of classification in clinical psychology, reviewing the scepticism about its negative effects and reflecting on the changes in historical and cultural interpretations of normality and abnormality.

 

KEYWORDS: Psychological disorders, mental, abnormal, classification,

 
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