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	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disordersis a reference work consulted by psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians in clinical practice, social workers, medical and nursing students, pastoral counselors, and other professionals in health care and social service fields.
		Kraepelin is also important in the history of diagnostic classification because he represented a biologically based view of mental disorders in opposition to the psychoanalytical approach of Sigmund Freud.
		The leaders of this transformation were biological psychiatrists who wanted to empty the diagnostic manual of terms and theories associated with hypothetical or explanatory concepts.
	health.enotes.com /mental-disorders-encyclopedia/diagnostic-statistical-manual-mental-disorders (2860 words)

	Diagnostic Criteria for Alcohol Abuse and Dependence - Alcohol Alert No. 30-1995
		Diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse and dependence reflect the consensus of researchers as to precisely which patterns of behavior or physiological characteristics constitute symptoms of these conditions (1).
		Diagnostic criteria allow clinicians to plan treatment and monitor treatment progress; make communication possible between clinicians and researchers; enable public health planners to ensure the availability of treatment facilities; help health care insurers to decide whether treatment will be reimbursed; and allow patients access to medical insurance coverage (1-3).
		The DSM diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders are the criteria primarily used in the United States.
	pubs.niaaa.nih.gov /publications/aa30.htm (1889 words)

	DSM4: DSM IV, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- Fourth Edition (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) is the current reference used by mental health professionals and physicians to diagnose mental disorders.
		Further, the DSM 4 is used as an educational tool and a reference for conducting all types of research (e.g., clinical trials, prevalence studies, outcome research).
		DSM has been designed for use in a single country - it is a national classification - whereas ICD has been designed for use in all countries with their varied cultures and needs and was subjected to international field trials.
	www.depression-guide.com /dsm4.htm (933 words)

	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Enpsychlopedia
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the handbook used most often in diagnosing mental disorders in the United States.
		The classificatory structure of early editions of the DSM was rooted in a distinction between two poles of mental disorder, psychosis and neurosis.
		Appropriate use of the diagnostic criteria requires extensive clinical training, and its contents "cannot simply be applied in a cookbook fashion."http://www.psych.org/research/dor/dsm/dsm_faqs/faq81301.cfm The APA notes that diagnostic labels are primarily for use as a "convenient shorthand" among professionals for the same symptoms.
	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders (1570 words)

	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Home Page
		The DSM IV (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, volume 4) is the latest and current version of the standard handbook of "mental illnesses" as determined by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
		The psychiatrist with the DSM in hand can try various labels on the patient as if they were different sizes of apparel until he finds one that either fits the patient's symptoms or comes close enough to allow him to bill the patient's insurance.
		Does the DSM have any relationship to a patient's actual condition or is it a convenient and simplistic method of compartmentalizing symptoms without actually working to isolate the true cause of the patient's real problems.
	www.psychdisorders.org (850 words)

	MedFriendly.com: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (commonly abbreviated as DSM) is a book published by the American Psychiatric Association, that is used to officially diagnose mental disorders.
		The original DSM was published in 1952 as a way to encourage clinicians to use the same standards to diagnose mental illness and was partially based on the ICD-6 (6th edition).
		The original DSM was influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud, but the names of many of the mental disorders had the word "reaction" after them, a term used often by a psychologist named Adolf Meyer.
	www.medfriendly.com /diagnosticandstatisticalmanualofmentaldisorders.html (907 words)

	DSM Disoders Diagnostic Criteria
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States.
		Associated with each diagnostic label is a diagnostic code, which is typically used by institutions and agencies for data collection and billing purposes.
		Numerous changes were made to the classification (i.e., disorders were added, deleted, and reorganized), to the diagnostic criteria sets, and to the descriptive text based on a careful consideration of the available research about the various mental disorders.
	psyweb.com /Mdisord/DSM_IV/jsp/dsm_iv.jsp (572 words)

	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
		The American Psychiatric Association publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, widely referred to as DSM-IV, a reference work designed to provide guidelines for psychologists and others to use in the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders.
		With the third edition, published in 1980, the DSM began recommending assessment of mental disorders according to five axes, or dimensions, that together establish an overall picture of a person's mental, emotional, and physical health, providing as complete a context as possible in which to make a proper diagnosis.
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	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV) is the latest attempt to classify complex phenomena such as various presentations of mental illness into a set of specific disorders that share common characteristics.
		The objective of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual system is to improve reliability and validity among diagnosticians and observers, improve diagnosis, treatment, and research.
		The DSM-IV is the most widely used diagnostic manual in the United States and one of the most widely used in the world.
	www.vakkur.com /psy/dsm4.html (896 words)

	"ADHD.org.nz - The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is one of the most widely used means of defining mental disorders.
		The manual is maintained by the American Psychiatric Association.
		From: Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (4th Edition), (1994), American Psychiatric Association, 1400 K Street, N.W., Washington D.C. The information presented is of a general nature and is not a substitute for professional medical or legal advice.
	www.adhd.org.nz /dsm1.html (617 words)

	eBay - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2000)
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		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manuaal of Mental Disorders (2000) was here in a week after I found it.
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	sociology - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the handbook used most often in diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and other countries.
		Deconstructive critics assert that DSM invents illnesses and behaviors.
		The DSM became atheoretical since it had no preferred etiology for mental disorders.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/DSM-IV (394 words)

	Diagnostic Systems
		Formal diagnostic systems will probably continue to be used for placement decisions until decision-making systems with better validity, reliability, and practicality and designed.
		The manual was the foundation for the modern International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of death (ICD).
		The second, the application of the DSM diagnostic process is not static.
	www.uiowa.edu /~c07p224/group_work/diagnostic_systems.htm (1321 words)

	Diagnostic & Statistical Manual
		The DSM III was developed in part, by gathering documented experiments, while attempting to remain neutral to theories, to form a consensus for validation of the diagnostic system.
		The DSM is the most widely used mental disorders manual in the U.S. and is utilized by a diverse group of mental health professionals.
		The DSM Children’s Anxiety Disorders section was discontinued prior to recognition of Elective Mutism in the DSM, in an effort to prevent misdiagnosis.
	www.selectivemutismfoundation.org /dsmgraph.shtml (4299 words)

	Wikinfo \| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the handbook used most often in diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and other countries.
		The most notorious example is the listing in the DSM-II of homosexuality as a mental disorder; a classification that was removed by vote of the APA in 1973 (see also homosexuality and psychology).
		The early editions of the DSM distinguished between a psychosis and a neurosis.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=DSM-II (415 words)

	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Nature and purposes, Background of dsm, Critiques of dsm-ivand ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Nature and purposes, Background of dsm, Critiques of dsm-ivand dsm-iv-tr
		Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders forum
		The biopsychosocial approach was originally proposed by a psychiatrist named George Engel in 1977 as a way around the disputes between psychoanalytically and biologically oriented psychiatrists that were splitting the field in the 1970s.
	www.minddisorders.com /Del-Fi/Diagnostic-and-Statistical-Manual-of-Mental-Disorders.html (2902 words)

	The DSM - Pros and Cons
		But the classificatory model the DSM has been using since 1952 is harshly criticized as woefully inadequate by many scholars and practitioners.
		In our next article we deal with the five diagnostic axes employed by the DSM to capture the way clinical syndromes (such as anxiety, mood, and eating disorders), general medical conditions, psychosocial and environmental problems, chronic childhood and developmental problems, and functional issues interact with personality disorders.
		The DSM had to resort to classifying some personality disorders as NOS "not otherwise specified", a catchall, meaningless, unhelpful, and dangerously vague diagnostic "category".
	personalitydisorders.suite101.com /blog.cfm/293 (616 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed): Books: American Psychiatric Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		DSM-IV is a manual for use by mental health professionals so that there is uniformity in diagnosis and basis for future research.
		As a clinical psycholgist, professor, and author I have found DSM to be useful.
		This "manual" is based upon the votes of a group of psychiatrists, pretending that the alleged ailments delineated are actual diseases or "disorders" as called here.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Diagnostic-Statistical-Manual-Mental-Disorders/dp/0890420629 (875 words)

	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, is the standard text in North America for diagnosing mental illnesses.
		The editors note that the text was developed by 13 work groups, with each group responsible for a section of the manual.
		Each group's work was reviewed by 50 to 100 advisers; all work group members and advisers were selected to reflect a broad range of clinical and research perspectives, and the manual was presented for several extensive consultations before a final draft was established.
	www.ontario.cmha.ca /content/about_mental_illness/dsm.asp (297 words)

	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Summary
		Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Dsm-Iv) A reference work developed by the American Psychiatric Association and designed to provide guidelines for the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders.
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a book used by medical professionals, insurance companies, and the court system to diagnose and define mental illnesses and disorders, including substance abuse and dependence.
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) represents the most influential effort in the field of mental health to identify psychological and psychiatric abnormalities for the purposes of treatment.
	www.bookrags.com /Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders (303 words)

	Amazon.com: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV (4th ed): Books: American Psychiatric ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is not useful to laypersons and is not a self-help manual.
		This classification should be understood as a frame of reference, not as a categoric and precise classification of diseases, since that is impossible given the huge complexity and/or size and nature of the task.
		The DSM-IV (and DSM-IV-TR) is the primary manual used by clinicians to diagnose mental disorders.
	www.amazon.com /Diagnostic-Statistical-Manual-Mental-Disorders/dp/0890420629 (1677 words)

	DSM-IV, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Mental Illness, Disease, Health - History
		In 1917, the Committee on Statistics of the American Psychiatric Association (at that time called the American Medico-Psychological Association (the name was changed in 1921), together with the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, formulated a plan that was adopted by the Bureau of the Census for gathering uniform statistics across mental hospitals.
		DSM-I contained a glossary of descriptions of the diagnostic categories and was the first official manual of mental disorders to focus on clinical utility.
		ICD-9 did not include diagnostic criteria or a multiaxial system largely because the primary function of this international system was to delineate categories to facilitate the collection of basic health statistics.
	www.sntp.net /references/dsm_historical.htm (2267 words)

	Chapter 20 - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
		The paradigm shift included an emphasis on diagnostic criteria that were meant to be neutral with regard to etiology and usable across the many different theoretical orientations in American psychiatry.
		The outcome of these explicit diagnostic criteria and the multiaxial diagnostic system introduced at that time improved on the record of poor diagnostic reliability of the previous DSM systems and helped clinical communication and research.
		The result was that studies were able to show that different psychiatrists using the new DSM classification system in evaluating the same patient agreed on the diagnosis 80% of the time.
	dpa.state.ky.us /library/manuals/mental/Ch20.html (2296 words)

	A Criticism of America's Diagnostic Bible: The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
		The organization and the structure of the DSM present precise and exacting criteria to be used to diagnose a mental disorder.
		The diagnostic process employed by the DSM is nowhere near the quality and sophistication of the diagnostic process in medicine - and many physicians argue that the medical diagnostic process is not sufficiently reliable or valid.
		The overall diagnostic process employed in the DSM is not much more sophisticated than those used to reach the most general diagnosis of headache, a stomach ache or inner ear problems.
	www.strugglingteens.com /mconnorart/diagbible.html (1203 words)

	DSM-IV-TR Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States.
		The APA Division of Research manages the DSM revision process and does not expect to begin forming DSM development workgroups until 2007 or later.
		Your comments or questions may be emailed to: DSM@psych.org or snail-mailed to DSM Coordinator, American Psychiatric Association, Division of Research, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va. 22209-3901.
	www.dsm4tr.org (457 words)

	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
		While widely accepted among psychologists and psychiatrists, the manual has proved controversial in its listing of certain characteristics as mental disorders.
		The early editions of the DSM distinguished between a psychosis and a neurosis.
		The APA Division of Research does not expect to begin forming DSM development workgroups until 2005 or later.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/d/di/diagnostic_and_statistical_manual_of_mental_disorders.html (336 words)

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