In subject area: Immunology and Microbiology Featured on this page Chapters and Articles You might find these chapters and articles relevant to this topic. Symptoms and Etiology of Serious Mental Illness Carlos W. Pratt, ... Melissa M. Roberts, in Psychiatric R...
According to DSM-IV, PTSD occurs after a traumatic event in which the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others. ...
There is quite a bit of controversy about it, but it looks as if Asperger’s Disorder will only be around for a couple more years. This diagnosis will probably get the axe in the upcomingDSM-V,when it arrives, subsumed into the so-called Autism Spectrum. It will be interesting to watch...
Kendell RE Five criteria for an improved taxonomy of mental disorders. Helzer JEHudziak JJeds. Defining Psychopathology in the 21st Century: DSM-V and Beyond. Washington, DC American Psychiatric Publishing2002;3- 17Google Scholar 33. Spitzer RL Diagnosis and need for treatment are not the same. ...
The relationships of high-point code types of the Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms (DIPS) to the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual III of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-III) were explored for patients (N = 316) in private mental health settings. Sixteen DIPS code t...
In terms of using theDSM, we need to become more willing to use the V71.09 code, which means, essentially, “No diagnosis or condition.” Many psychiatrists don’t even know this code exists. Instead,we give “NOS” diagnoses(“not otherwise specified”) or “rule-outs,” which eventually...
Analyses that control for other comorbidity test the hypothesis that an alcohol diagnosis is associated with the pure (noncomorbid) form of the other disorder.69 The relationship of 12-month alcohol abuse and dependence to disability as measured by the SF-12v2 disability scores was determined ...
The relationships of high-point code types of the Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms (DIPS) to the Diagnostic and statistical manual III of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-III) were explored for public hospital patients (N = 448). Nineteen DIPS code types that relate code...
As the IOM panel’s proposed case definition and suggested term have not undergone field testing and evaluation; as the SEID term has not been adopted by US federal agencies; and as NCHS-CDC has made no decision to assign a code for SEID in the US ICD-10-CM for medical billing and rei...
1 Dimsdale J, Creed F. DSM-V Workgroup on Somatic Symptom Disorders: the proposed diagnosis of somatic symptom disorders in DSM-V to replace somatoform disorders in DSM-IV – a preliminary report. J Psychosom Res 2009;66:473-6. 2 DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorders Work Group Disorder Descriptio...