This introduction has been controversial, and the ICD-11 suggests the diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) with chronic irritability/anger instead of DMDD. Culture is closely related to mental health and disorders and interacts with mental disorders through the cultural concepts of distress...
Most recently, this has resulted in the addition of a new diagnosis, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD) in the DSM 5. The impetus for including this new disorder was to reduce the number of diagnoses that these children would typically receive; however, there is concern that it ...
This introduction has been controversial, and the ICD-11 suggests the diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) with chronic irritability/anger instead of DMDD. Culture is closely related to mental health and disorders and interacts with mental disorders through the cultural concepts of distress...