The DSM establishes a common language for professional communication and research, not to mention insurance codes. However, there are also ways in which mental health professionals don’t view the DSM as clinically useful. After seeing many patients, clinicians gradually form their own mental models ...
axis Iincludes all the clinical syndromes and V codes except for personality disorders and mental retardation;axis IIincludes the personality disorders and mental retardation;axis IIIlists any coexisting physical disorders or conditions;axis IVassesses the severity of psychosocial and environmental stressors...
This age of onset for ADHD has been challenged for years and has no scientific basis and much evidence to the contrary. More recent research suggests that it would be more accurate to state that the onset of ADHD is in childhood or adolescence. The final DSM-IV-TR requirement is that ...
and others. The DSM-IV has specific V Codes for various types of abuse including physical and sexual abuse of both children and adults as well as neglect, emphasizing the importance of these areas for questioning in the initial interview. Sometimes V codes are used because no mental disorder ...
Results Prevalence of 30-Day DSM-IV Disorders Estimated 30-day prevalence was 15.0% for any internalizing disorder, 18.4% for any externalizing disorder, and 25.1% for any disorder (Table 2). The most prevalent disorders were IED (11.2%), PTSD (8.6%), and ADHD (7.0%), with other disorde...
DSM-IV-TR, a text revision ofDSM-IV, was introduced in 2000. Although majordiagnosticcriteria have remained essentially the same as those inDSM-IV, the text revision updates information about associated features, course, and prevalence with new research, and it updatesICD-9codes from 1994 when...
and others. The DSM-IV has specific V Codes for various types of abuse including physical and sexual abuse of both children and adults as well as neglect, emphasizing the importance of these areas for questioning in the initial interview. Sometimes V codes are used because no mental disorder ...