Read the passage and answer the following questions:
Rajan, a grade XII student, has been aspiring for medicine as a career. He has gone through a lot of challenges on the family- front, like moving into a new house, serious health issues, financial setbacks etc. Suddenly, a week before his entrance examination, he experienced numbness on the left side of his body and within the next few days he was unable to move entirely. He was hospitalized and couldn't appear for the entrance exam. Doctors did not find any physiological anomalies in his medical reports but identified psychological causes of the problem. Later, he recovered and is now pursuing his graduation.
Identify which of the following is a classification system that can be referred to screen Rajan's disorder?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → DSM-5
Option (1) DSM-5 — Correct. The American Psychiatric Association publishes an official manual that describes and classifies psychological disorders. Its current version, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), gives clinical criteria that show whether a disorder is present or absent, so Rajan’s symptoms can be checked against it to name his disorder. (The scheme used officially in India is the WHO’s ICD-10.)
Option (2) MMPI-2 — Incorrect. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is a self-report personality test of 567 true/false statements, and MMPI-2 is its revised version. It helps in psychiatric diagnosis, but it is a test a person answers, not a classification system of disorders.
Option (3) WAIS-R — Incorrect. WAIS is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-R is a revised form), an intelligence test for adults. It measures intellectual ability and does not classify psychological disorders.
Option (4) SAT-5 — Incorrect. There is no classification of psychological disorders by this name; the option only borrows the ‘5’ of DSM-5.
NCERT (2025-26): “Classification of Psychological Disorders … The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has published an official manual describing and classifying various kinds of psychological disorders. The current version of it, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th Edition (DSM-5), presents discrete clinical criteria which indicate the presence or absence of disorders. The classification scheme officially used in India and elsewhere is the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), which is known as the ICD-10 Classification of Behavioural and Mental Disorders. It was prepared by the World Health Organisation (WHO).…” “The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) … This inventory is widely used as a test in personality assessment. Hathaway and McKinley developed this test as a helping tool for psychiatric diagnosis, but the test has been found very effective in identifying varieties of psychopathology. Its revised version is available as MMPI-2.…” |