Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Rutgers University The DSM serves many interests and performs many tasks. It provides a common language of mental disorders for clinicians, standardized categories for researchers, diag- nostic codes for insurance companies, and valid ...
In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) included premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) in their diagnostic manual “as a possible mental disorder requiring more research.” They have continued the diagnosis in DSM V. Although DSM IV lists PMDD as a strictly “research” diagnosis, Eli...
The most common reason that participants attended both AA and SMART was the desire to engage with all possible recovery resources available (69 %, n = 20): “I was going to try everything, anything and everything possible to try to stop drinking...” The next highest reason that ...