Essentials of psychiatric diagnosis
Subtitle: responding to the challenge of DSM-5
By: Allen Frances
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781462510498; 9781462510818
Subjects: Mental illness; Diagnosis
Description: "This book provides a concise and user-friendly guide to more accurate diagnosis and coding. It offers: - One or more screening questions for each disorder. - Clear prototypal descriptions of the mental disorders rather than complex and cumbersome criteria sets that are often ignored. - The most crucial differential diagnoses that must be ruled out for each disorder. - Diagnostic tips--everything I have learned through 40 years of seeing patients, supervising, and preparing DSM III, DSM IIIR, and DSM IV. - The required ICD-9 codes for each disorder. - Cautions to reduce diagnostic inflation and counter the influence of fad diagnosing. - Cautions on questionable aspects of DSM-5"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.