Showing posts with label Introduction to Psychological dysfunction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Introduction to Psychological dysfunction. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Psychological Disorders

Psychological disorders can be divide into three criteria.
They are:
1. Psychotic Mental Disorders
2. Neurotic Mental Disorders
3. Organic Mental Disorders

For classifying a psychological disorders, there are two diagnostic systems are available in world wide. They are:
1. DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental disorders IVth Edition - Text
Revised)
2. ICD - 10 (International Classification for Disease)

Based on these diagnostic criteria we are assessing a Mental Disorder.