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Please review the evolution of mental health diagnoses and why it is important to have a classification system for the study of psychopathology? Please make sure you post is 250 words or more and include the references from this weeks readings.

Carlin, E. & Clegg, J. (2017). History of mental health diagnoses. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 1660-1664). SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781483365817.n668

Kogan, C., Burns, S. & Reed, G. (2017). International classification of diseases. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 1872-1875). SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781483365817.n752

Regier, D. A., Kuhl, E. A., & Kupfer, D. J. (2013). The DSM-5: Classification and criteria changes. World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 12(2), 92–98. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20050

Segal, D., Marty, M. & Coolidge, F. (2017). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition (dsm-5). In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 1093-1095). SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781483365817.n433

Speilman, R. M., Jenkins, W. J. & Lovett, M. D. (2020). 15.2 Diagnosing and classifying psychological disorders. Psychology 2e. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/psychology/pages/15-2-diagnosing-and-classifying-psychological-disorders