Give the complete name of the DSM. Who Publishes it?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric
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What was the DSM designed to facilitate?
More reliable diagnoses.
List three ways the DSM is intended to serve
a guide for diagnosing and treating mental disorders
a tool for clinicians
a reference for researchers in the field
What do the acronyms ICD and WHO stand for?
ICD: International Classification of Diseases, WHO: World Health Organization
List five of the enhancements incorporated into the DSM-5
Representation of developmental issues related to diagnoses: the chapter organization was changed to a lifespan approach
Integration of scientific findings from the latest research in genetics and neuroimaging
transition of conceptualizing personality disorders: an alternative "hybrid" model has been proposed in Section III to guide future research.
Section III: new disorders and features
Online enhancements: online supplemental material
Why are reliable diagnoses essential? List four reasons cited in the DSM-5
guiding treatment recommendations
identifying prevalence rates
identifying patient groups for clinical and basic research
and commenting important public health information such as morbidity and mortality rates
List the four stages of the DSM-5 revision process
Proposals for Revisions
DSM-5 Field Trials
Public and Professional Review
and Expert Review
What four principals guided draft revisions?
The DSM-5 is primarily intended to be a manual to be used by clinicians, and revisions must be feasible for routine clinical practice.
Recommendations for revisions should be guided by research evidence.
Where possible, continuity should be maintained with pervious editions of the DSM.
No a priori constraints should be placed on the degree of change between DSM-IV and DSM-5.
Briefly summarize the three reasons why harmonization with the IDC-11 was thought to be important.
The existence of two major classifications of mental disorders:
hinders the collection and use of national health statistics
the design of clinical trials aimed at developing new treatments
and the consideration of global applicability of the results by international regulatory agencies.
More broadly, the existence of two classifications complicates attempts to replicate scientific results across nations.
What realities are described as resulting from the narrowing of diagnostic categories in the attempt to identifying homogeneous patient populations for research and treatment?
Identifying homogenous populations for treatment and research results in narrow diagnostic categories did not capture clinical reality, symptom heterogeneity within disorders, and significant sharing of symptoms across multiple disorders.
The historical aspiration of achieving diagnostic homogeneity by subtyping within disorder categories is no longer sensible; like most human ills, mental disorders are heterogenous at many levels, ranging from genetic risk factors to symptoms.
How does DSM-5 incorporate developmental and lifespan issues into its overall organization?
DSM-5 is organized on developmental and lifespan considerations. It beings with diagnoses thought to reflect developmental processes that manifest early in life, followed by diagnoses that more commonly manifest in adolescence and young adulthood, and ends with diagnoses relevant to adulthood and later life. [Show Less]