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This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health ...
There are many differences between the two latest versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diffe...
This paper introduces the new diagnostic criteria found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V and utilizes those criteria in ...
In five pages this research paper considers sexual dysfunction in men and women as defined and classified by the DSM IV along with...
is necessary to examine how it can be diagnosed and what treatments are available. One of the latest tools in the health professio...
In twelve pages this paper considers the diagnostic techniques the American Psychiatric Association uses and the definitions assoc...
In ten pages this paper examines the DSM classification system in a discussion of the deletion of homosexuality by the board of di...
In this paper consisting of six pages the DSM IV's role in both diagnosing and treating alcohol abuse in terms of the alcoholics a...
In ten pages this paper examines the DSM IV criteria as it applies to passive aggressive personality disorder. Fifteen sources ar...
make some conclusions. The DSM-IV diagnostic lists several observable traits usually pertaining to those experiencing a manic epi...
descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...
However, as indicated in the main heading, this behavior alone is not sufficient to indicate Aspergers Disorder. The fact that Bil...
also tells the user that when these symptoms occur together, or to the degree specified, the condition is usually called X (Riesen...
connection between BDD and anorexia nervosa (Matsunaga, et al, 1999). Panic Attacks, Dissociative Disorder and Acute Stress Dis...
time, after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in ...
after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...
ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...
Communication Disorder, Not Specified. Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Autism-lists of symptoms are presented in 3 separate ca...
drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...
guide, basically simply changing errors that had been found in the text (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Org...
(Rowney, Hermida and Malone, 2009). Comorbidity is common with both generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks with overlappin...
beliefs. Evans (2006, 37) notes, however, that "The factors that serve to perpetuate an eating disorder may have little to do wit...
manual used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and many others who work in the mental health field. This manual is referred to simpl...
clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...
when one considers the premise that depression has been associated with reproductive factors, including a womans menstrual cycle ...
The learning theory perspective provides a basis for creating functional change when fetishism or paraphilias are particularly pro...
Disorder 300.3 Axis II: Schizoid Personality Disorder 301.20 Axis III: Abuse of caffeine. Axis IV: Stressors related to compl...
one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...
a considerable body of empirical evidence that calls these DSM-IV factors into question. The female sexual response is complicated...
alcoholic may have full knowledge that the substance is disrupting his or her life in some dramatic way (such as the loss of a job...