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What are potential advantages and disadvantages of the dsm -5 system? so the dsm -5 is a big book of mental health diagnoses.
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It's used predominantly in the us, so it's a us -based list of diagnoses, and with those, it keeps track of symptoms, it keeps track of treatments.
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Basically, it standardises things, and that is an advantage of it.
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Standardization.
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If you go to a psychiatrist in the us, you know you're going to, if you need it, get a diagnosis that other psychiatrists will also understand and will know what it means.
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They will know what symptoms to expect, what treatments you give.
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So it standardizes diagnoses and treatments.
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So ideally, everyone is getting the same kind of care.
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And this is important.
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It guides treatment.
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If you know what diagnosis your patient has, then you know what treatment they should probably be having.
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From there, we also have the kind of financial side of things.
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So known billing codes.
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Your doctor knows what to charge you.
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On the disadvantages, well, do you really want to standardise diagnosis? because the brain is a very complicated thing.
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Sure, the different ways it can go wrong may rhyme for different people, but they're not going to be identical...