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Using Dsm-iv: A Clinician's Guide To Psychiatric Diagnosis (developments In Clinical Psychiatry) by Anthony L. LaBruzza in collaboration with José M. Méndez-Villarrubia is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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In Using DSM-IV, Dr. Anthony LaBruzza and Jose Mendez-Villarrubia offer the needed supplement to DSM-IV. Their book, a veritable road map for DSM-IV, explains the technical language and hierarchical classifications of DSM-IV while it demonstrates how the system can be adapted to a clinical approach. In cogent prose replete with examples, the authors show how to use DSM-IV to arrive at accurate diagnoses that include, rather than forsake, dynamic conceptualizations of clients' psychological functioning. The authors review each DSM-IV diagnostic category, helping the reader to see what clients with a specific pathology look like, what is actually needed to qualify for the disorder, and what similar disorders to rule out. Because theirs is a fundamentally humane and clinical approach to mental illness, LaBruzza and Mendez-Villarrubia suggest that any interview, even a mental status exam, should be a helpful experience for the client. They show how to embed a diagnostic interview in an ongoing clinical process and thus relate to and understand each client as unique, even while finding the right diagnostic category for him or her. This attunement to individuals also enables LaBruzza and

Author

Anthony L. LaBruzza in collaboration with José M. Méndez-Villarrubia

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781568213330

Subjects

Medical, History, Psychology

Updated

2026-03-24