The key strengths and limitations of the psychiatric classification system.
The strengths
Inappropriate behaviours can be identified from the functional ones. A range of mental disorders can be arranged and described in a particular way for professionals to understand as they all use this information. It is used all over the world so you get the same diagnostic where ever you are.
The limitations are:
The system does not look at people holistically, not looking at the person but what it says in the book.
It does not explain the causes of the illness.
1.3 Biological and medical frameworks can be used,
Biological is when all factors are looked into including behaviours in the past, how moods have been, and their personality is changing.