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Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis, Revised Edition: Responding to the Challenge of DSM-5

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Allen Frances

  • Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis, Revised Edition

218 pages
2013
ISBN: 9781462513482

Grounded in author Allen Frances's extensive clinical experience, this comprehensive yet concise guide helps the busy clinician find the right psychiatric diagnosis and avoid the many pitfalls that lead to errors. Covering every disorder routinely encountered in clinical practice, Frances provides the appropriate ICD-9-CM code for each one (the same code utilised in the DSM), a useful screening question, a colourful descriptive prototype, lucid diagnostic tips, and a discussion of other disorders that must be ruled out. The book closes with an index of the most common presenting symptoms, listing possible diagnoses that must be considered for each. Frances was instrumental in the development of past editions of the DSM and provides helpful cautions on questionable aspects of DSM-5.

The revised edition features ICD-10-CM codes where feasible throughout the chapters, plus a Crosswalk to ICD-10-CM codes in the Appendix. The Appendix, links to further coding resources, and periodic updates can also be accessed online.

A helpful guide for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, and counsellors working with adults and children; graduate students and trainees. Also of interest to primary care physicians.

Table of Contents

  1. How to Use This Book
  2. Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Childhood and Adolescence
  3. Depressive Disorders
  4. Bipolar Disorders
  5. Anxiety Disorders
  6. Obsessive–Compulsive and Related Disorders
  7. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
  8. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
  9. Substance-Related Disorders and Behavioral Addictions
  10. Neurocognitive Disorders
  11. Personality Disorders
  12. Impulse Control Disorders
  13. Eating Disorders
  14. Sleep–Wake Disorders
  15. Sexual and Gender Issues
  16. Disorders Related to Physical Symptoms
  17. Dissociative Disorders
  18. Codes for Conditions That May be a Focus of Clinical Attention but Are Not Mental Disorders

"Simply the best book I’ve read about how to accurately diagnose your patients...."
- Daniel J. Carlat, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine