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Question: Briefly describe the six major categories of abnormal behavior as given in the 1968 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-II) of the American Psychiatric Association.

  1. DSM-II outlines the categories as personality patterns and disorders, specific childhood disorders, transient situational disturbances, physical conditions, psychotic disorders, and neurotic disorders.
  2. DSM-II divides abnormal behavior into organic brain syndromes, mental disorders, psychoses, neuroses, personality disorders, and sociocultural disorders.
  3. The six major categories of abnormal behavior in DSM-II are mental retardation, organic brain syndromes, psychoses not attributed to physical conditions, neuroses, personality disorders and other nonpsychotic mental disorders, and psychophysiological disorders.
  4. The six categories are psychoses, neuroses, personality disorders, mental retardation, organic brain syndromes, and mood disorders.
  5. The six major DSM-II categories are anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, dissociative disorders, sexual dysfunctions, and sleep disorders.
  6. DSM-II categorizes abnormal behavior into neuroses, personality disorders, psychoses, cognitive disorders, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders.
  7. DSM-II identifies the categories as adjustment disorders, developmental disorders, impulse control disorders, factitious disorders, sexual and gender identity disorders, and somatoform disorders.
  8. The six categories defined by DSM-II include psychophysiological disorders, personality disorders, sexual deviations, alcoholism and substance misuse, disorders of character and behavior, and intellectual disabilities.
  9. Abnormal behavior is classified into substance-related disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, bipolar and related disorders, depressive disorders, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders according to DSM-II.
  10. The six categories are anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia and other psychoses, personality disorders, and eating disorders.

Our answer: C. The six major categories of abnormal behavior in DSM-II are mental retardation, organic brain syndromes, psychoses not attributed to physical conditions, neuroses, personality disorders and other nonpsychotic mental disorders, and psychophysiological disorders. Source quote machine-checked (at mint)

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History of psychiatric nosology. The major diagnostic categories of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Second Edition (DSM-II, American Psychiatric Association, 1968), in the manual's own order.

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American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Second Edition (DSM-II), Washington, D.C., 1968 -- the manual's own numbered section list.

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