Thursday, May 10, 2012

Dsm diagnoses dropped

  • The DSM defines and classifies all mental illnesses and in vulnerable populations like foster care children.
  • (Time)
  • its most controversial proposals have finally been dropped. We have dodged bullets on psychosis risk and mixed anxiety depression. Both are now definitively rejected as official DSM 5 diagnoses and instead are being exiled to the appendix.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The doctors dropped two diagnoses that they ultimately concluded were not More than 10,500 comments have come through the site, many of them critical.
  • (New York Times)
  • 25% with DSM-5 versus 23% with DSM-IV. At Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., it dropped to 20% from 26%.
  • (MedPage Today)
  • The book now in the works, the DSM-5 (yes, they dropped the Roman numerals), is due out by next years APA meeting. Supporters say the revisions incorporate more current science into the highly influential book.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • "Both are now definitely rejected as official DSM-5 diagnoses and instead are being exiled to the appendix." Frances is especially pleased about the purging of attenuated psychosis syndrome.
  • (Minnpost.com)

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