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A companion to the classification of mental disorders /

A Companion to the Classification of Mental Disorders provides essential reading as a background and supplement to both the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses for these classifications. The book emphasises the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, J. E. (John Edward)
Otros Autores: Sartorius, N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Problems before agreed psychiatric classifications were available
  • 2. First steps towards international agreement on diagnosis and classification
  • 3. Large-scale collaborative studies on diagnosis
  • 4. Developments in the USA
  • 5. The first internationally understandable epidemiological studies
  • 6. Large community-based diagnostic studies in the USA
  • 7. Other large community-based diagnostic surveys
  • 8. Some problems with research methods used in psychiatric surveys
  • 9. Translation and use of interviewing schedules in more than one language and culture
  • 10. Towards international agreement on classification
  • 11. Communication between different health care professions
  • 12. Understanding classification
  • 13. Special problems for psychiatric classification
  • 14. Diagnosis in psychiatry
  • 15. Classification beyond the diagnosis
  • 16. Multi-axial classification
  • 17. Psychiatric classification in an international perspective
  • 18. Using a psychiatric classification
  • 19. The future.