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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822340803321

Autore

Paris Joel <1940->

Titolo

The intelligent clinician's guide to DSM-5 / / Joel Paris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-19-935329-8

0-19-997021-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Mental illness - Diagnosis

Mental illness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.193-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: DIAGNOSTIC PRINCIPLES; 1. The History of Diagnosis in Psychiatry; 2. How Diagnostic Manuals Are Made; 3. What Is (and Is Not) a Mental Disorder; 4. Diagnostic Validity; 5. Dimensionality; 6. Clinical Utility; PART TWO: SPECIFIC DIAGNOSES; 7. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychoses; 8. Bipolar and Related Disorders; 9. Depressive Disorders; 10. Anxiety Disorders, Trauma, and the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum; 11. Substance Use, Eating, and Sexual Disorders; 12. Neurodevelopmental and Disruptive Behavioral Disorders

13. Personality Disorders14. Other Diagnostic Groupings; PART THREE: OVERVIEW; 15. A Guide for the Perplexed; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. Written by a celebrated professor of psychiatry, this reader-friendly book uses evidence-based critiques and new research to point out where DSM-5 is right, where it is wrong, and where the jury's still out. Along the way, The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5RG sifts through the many public controversies and clinical debates surro