For such a patient to benefit: Dementia must be mild They retain the capacity to recall the therapeutic encounter from one session, individual or group to another Capacity to meaningfully benefit from psychotherapy must be documented in the medical record Services are not covered when documentation ...
Selected results from the section psychotherapy/psychosomatics of the ICD-10 research criteria study are discussed. One hundred thirty diagnosticians from 11 psychosomatics centers took part in this section, assessing 16 video-documented patients in case conferences. The results of the study, which ...
Case 2 (Fig.2) is a 36-year-old man with a history of panic attacks and recurrent depressive episodes. He is intelligent and sensitive but has not managed to finish any degree after high school. A psychiatric evaluation at an outpatient psychotherapy unit concluded that his personality features...
The DSM and ICD: In the context of psychology, the two most widely used diagnostic handbooks are the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The former was developed by the American Psychiatric Association, while the latte...
Dr. med. Wolfgang Gaebel is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. He was Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Head of the LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf (LVR-KD) from 1992 until 2016. From 2014 to 2016, he was also...
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