According to many studies the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders known as the DSM has been praised and helped in many situations. It has helped psychiatric diagnostic categories and criteria. The DSM has helped form subjective systems and categories from normality, cultural bases or medicalization of human distress. All over the United States the Diagnostic and Statistical manual is used. The DSM answers many questions whenever it comes to mental disorders. The Diagnostic Statistic Manual was created to offer common language and standard criteria for naming and classifying mental disorders. Many companies, researchers and even legal systems rely on the DSM for answers that help them diagnose a patient. The Diagnostic and …show more content…
Following shortly after the World War II, doctors and nurses were in a need of needing a way to treat and diagnose people that were returning home from the war. Starting in 1952 the first DSM came into play. Homosexuality was listed in the DSM as a personality disturbance. The DSM II was developing around 1968, before this DSM happened someone known as Thomas Szasz made an argument that mental illness was only a myth, and was just disguising moral conflicts. Or as Erving Goffman described mental illness as society labels. Even though things were being questioned, the DSM II was still published listing 182 disorders and was about 134 pages long. Sociological and biological knowledge was incorporated. Eventually this tool became unreliable, with that begin said the DSM was revised again and around 1980 the DSM III was available to use. The DSM III had a goal to improve uniformity and validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Many new categories were added to the DSM-III but many were also taken away. Being 494 pages and 265 diagnostic categories were listed in the DSM- III. In 1987 another DSM-III – R came out. This DSM was a little more revised, six categories were deleted while there were also some added. The DSM-III-R had 292 diagnoses, and was 567 pages long. During …show more content…
This has helped numerous amounts of doctors clarify their patient’s illness. The more the DSM evolves the more doctors and psychologists know. Many professionals have come together to collaborate and create the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. By using the DSM healthcare are able to maintain consistency in developing a treatment plan. The DSM also reduces the risk of opposing diagnosis, and patients that are having to use the DSM font have to be evaluated by someone’s opinion. Many professionals, such as psychologist, and counselors use the DSM for the many benefits that it gives out. There are legal benefits with the most recent DSM as well, such as guidelines that are followed. Criminals cannot feign a mental illness just to receive lighter sentences. Patients who receive the DSM should know that it is accurately going to diagnose. The latest DSM-5 is referred to as the therapists bible. It provides a series of codes that allow for therapists and doctors to summarize complex conditions and it’s quicker and more accurate then their personal
Ronson discovers the DSM textbook, which consists of all of the listed mental disorders. He then went through the list and wondered if he has any of the 374 disorders and if there was any org...
Frances, A., & Ross, R. (1996). DSM-IV case studies a clinical guide to differential diagnosis. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, Inc.
Allen Frances spends his time concluding his thoughts about the DSM and diagnostic inflation in the third part of “Saving Normal”. Frances appears to be passionate about reducing over-diagnosing and unnecessary medication. Frances did a good job providing us with ways that can change the future of diagnosis. Having a complete culture change will be difficult, but we can begin by educating ourselves.
5) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, an online version of the resource book.
Personality disorders entails a class of mental disorders that are characterized by permanent maladaptive rhythm of behavior, cognition, and inner experience. The latter have been defined in many circumstances and are markedly deviated from social culture. These behaviors occurs at early age, they are rigid and also associated to distress or disability. However, the definition may alter in accordance to other factors. There are several criteria for overcoming personality disorders from American Psychiatric Association and World Health Organization. When the fifth edition, the DSM-5, was compiled, it was determined that there was no scientific basis for dividing the disorders, so the multi-axial system was done away with. Instead, the new non-axial diagnosis combines the former Axes 1, II and III and include separate notations for the type of information which would have previously fallen into Axes IV and V.
Federal and state laws, including Public Law 94-142 and the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), require that children with emotional, behavioral, and learning disorders be given a diagnosis in order to receive the needed services and accommodations (Neukrug & Fawcett, 2015). An clinical diagnosis is also necessary when requesting reimbursement from managed care organizations and insurance companies, as they will base the number of authorized therapy sessions on the diagnosis and treatment plan goals. The DSM -5 is an important tool in determining a client’s diagnosis and should be used in combination with clinical interviews, family assessments, and standardized assessment instruments when developing a treatment plan (Neukrug & Fawcett, 2015).
"Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication." National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine, n.d. Web. 19 Dec. 2013. .
The DSM has been found to be somewhat bias. There are some pros and cons to the DSM as well. Some have found that it leads to uniform and improved diagnosis, improves informed professional communication through uniformity, and provides the basis for a comprehensive educational tool. While others believe it can lead to diagnostic labels, by providing limited information on the relationship between environmental considerations and aspects of the mental health condition. Lastly, it does not describe intervention strategies (Wakefield,
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been used for decades as a guidebook for the diagnosis of mental disorders in clinical settings. As disorders and diagnoses evolve, new versions of the manual are published. This tends to happen every 10 years or so with the first manual (DSM-I) having been published in 1952. For the purpose of this discussion, we will look at the DSM-IV, which was published originally in 1994, and the latest version, DSM-5, that was published in May of 2013. Each version of the DSM contains “three major components: the diagnostic classification, the diagnostic criteria sets, and the descriptive text” (American Psychiatric Association, 2012). Within the diagnostic classification you will find a list of disorders and codes which professionals in the health care field use when a diagnosis is made. The diagnostic criteria will list symptoms of disorders and inform practitioners how long a patient should display those symptoms in order to meet the criteria for diagnosis of a disorder. Lastly, the descriptive text will describe disorders in detail, including topics such as “Prevalence” and “Differential Diagnosis” (APA, 2012). The recent update of the DSM from version IV-TR to 5 has been controversial for many reasons. Some of these reasons include the overall structure of the DSM to the removal of certain disorders from the manual.
Originally published in 1952, the DSM has been through a number of revisions in its history. The original manual was the culmination of an extended journey of its own. According to Tartokovsky (2011), the DSM was born out of the need to minimize the confusion that had developed in the world of mental health care with regard to classifying disorders. Prior to this, there had been an initial attempt to create a system of classification that had emerged in 1917 known as the Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane. The manual was written by the early predecessor to the APA and wa...
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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR. (4th ed.). (2000). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
Classification refers to the procedure in which ideas or objects are recognized, distinguished and understood. Currently, two leading systems are used for grouping of mental disorder namely International Classification of Disease (ICD) by World Health Organization (WHO) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DSM) by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Other classifications include Chinese classification of mental disorder, psycho-dynamic diagnostic manual, Latin American guide for psychiatric diagnosis etc. A survey of 205 psychiatrists, from 66 different countries across all continents, found that ICD-10 was more customarily used and more valued in clinical practice, while the DSM-IV was more valued for research [1].
In 1980, BPD had finally been recorded in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Ogrodniczuk & Hernandez, 2010). Now in the fifth edition, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lists BPD among the fifteen types of personality disorders (5th ed.; DSM–5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013).