The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a tool used by healthcare professionals to diagnose, classify, and understand mental health conditions. The DSM standardizes criteria ...

The DSM is used by mental health professionals to help standardize the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental ...

A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual eliminates some mental disorders while including new criteria for diagnosing other conditions. Does it actually matter how we name illnesses?

If you wanted to make a list of important books you should read, what would you choose? Anna Karenina, maybe? The Bible? How about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? It may not ...

DSM 5 sells at a price gouging $200/copy. The American Psychiatric Associations has assumed that it has a fully captive audience of people who will feel compelled to buy DSM 5 for coding and ...

On Saturday, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) finalized a 13-year process of revising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, commonly known as the DSM, the most important ...

THE DIAGNOSTIC and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, universally known as the DSM, has for the past six decades defined "normal" by providing categories for "abnormal." Although it has changed ...

The new edition of the DSM replaces DSM-IV, which appeared in 1994. The DSM is the standard – and standardising – work of reference issued by the American Psychiatric Association, but its influence ...

Diagnoses are a combination of social conditions and medical symptoms A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual eliminates some mental disorders while including new criteria for ...