Description
Book SynopsisThe proceedings of a conference convened by the APA, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the book explores a dimensional approach to diagnosing substance dependence, major depressive episode, psychosis, anxiety disorders, developmental psychopathology, and personality disorders.
Trade ReviewThis informative new book details the dimensional approach to psychiatric nosology. Clinicians actually do not treat patients according to the DSM categories (or the diagnostic criteria) but rather use the heuristic of target symptoms. Clinicians and researchers who are interested in understanding the rationale for the modifications proposed in the next iteration of the DSM should read this book.
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Students, researchers, and clinicians alike will find this text useful.
* PsycCRITIQUES *
Dimensional Approaches in Diagnostic Classification, by Helzer and colleagues, has a timely focus on refining the research agenda for DSM-V, advocating a stronger dimensional emphasis to our categorically structured current DSM -IV.
-- James H. Shore, MD * Journal of Clinical Psychiatry *
Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
FOREWORD: Dimensional Approaches to Psychiatric Classification
PREFACE
Chapter 1. DIMENSIONAL APPROACHES IN DIAGNOSTIC CLASSIFICATION: A Critical Appraisal
Chapter 2. DSM CATEGORIES AND DIMENSIONS IN CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CONTEXTS
Chapter 3. A DIMENSIONAL OPTION FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE IN DSM-V
Chapter 4. DIMENSIONALITY AND THE CATEGORY OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE EPISODE
Chapter 5. DIMENSIONS AND THE PSYCHOSIS PHENOTYPE
Chapter 6. SUPPLEMENTARY DIMENSIONAL ASSESSMENT IN ANXIETY DISORDERS
Chapter 7. SYNTHESIZING DIMENSIONAL AND CATEGORICAL APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY DISORDERS: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V Axis II
Chapter 8. A DIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Chapter 9. DIMENSIONAL OPTIONS FOR DSM-V: The Way Forward
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