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For over six years the DSM-IV Task Force and members of the DSM-IV Work Groups have participated in a comprehensive effort of empirical review leading to the publication of the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). This first volume of the DSM-IV Sourcebook chronicles these efforts and their results, documenting the rationale and empirical support for the text and criteria sets presented in DSM-IV. From a total of five volumes, the first three contain the DSM-IV literature reviews and summarize the DSM-IV Work Group efforts that led to the publication of the DSM-IV Options Book. This, the first volume, presents the reviews for substance use disorders; delirium, dementia, and amnestic and other cognitive disorders; psychotic disorders; medication-induced movement disorders; and sleep disorders. Each review contains the following six sections: - Statement of the issueexplicitly outlines the issues addressed in the review.- Significance of the issue -- frames the importance of each issue and discusses its clinical and empirical significance.- Method -- documents the extent to which the reviews were syst

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Author
American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Dcm-IV; Thomas A. Widiger
Publisher
Published By The American Psychiatric Association
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780890420690
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, Psychology, Medicine