A companion to the classification of mental disorders / John E. Cooper, Norman Sartorius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, John E.

Contributor:

Sartorius, N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Mental illness--Classification.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 dangers of regarding any current psychiatric classification as true or complete, in view of the present partial state of knowledge about the causes and mechanisms of most mentaland behavioural disorders.This book is unique in containing a number of chapters that give a brief history of the cooperat

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Problems before agreed psychiatric classifications were available; 1.1 The development of idiosyncratic ideas; 1.2 Difficulties encountered by mental health professionals when trying to understand publications; 1.2.1 Publications on concepts of psychiatric illness; 1.2.2 Difficulties in understanding publications on the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders; 1.2.3 Difficulties in understanding publications on large-scale mental health statistics, particularly from other countries; 1.3 The proliferation of individual and national classifications

1.4 The facilitation of abuse of psychiatric diagnosis for political and other purposes1.5 Change in diagnosis caused by change in doctor; 2 First steps towards international agreement on diagnosis and classification; 2.1 The British Glossary and ICD-8; 2.2 Reliable foundations for diagnoses; the Present State Examination (PSE) and the Mental Status Schedule (MSS); 3 Large-scale collaborative studies on diagnosis; 3.1 Cross-national: The US/UK Diagnostic Project; 3.1.1 Large-scale national statistics of admissions to mental hospitals; 3.1.2 Detailed study of individual diagnoses

3.2 International: The WHO Programmes on the Standardization of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification A, B, C, and D; 4 Developments in the USA; 4.1 The DSM system; 4.1.1 DSM-I and DSM-II; 4.2 The St Louis group and the Feighner criteria; 4.3 DSM-III; 4.4 DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and DSM-IV-TR; 5 The first internationally understandable epidemiological studies; 5.1 The IPSS and DOSMED studies of the WHO; 5.2 The WHO Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders (DOSMED) study; 5.3 The International Study of Schizophrenia (ISOS); 6 Large community-based diagnostic studies in the USA

6.1 The NIMH Epidemiological Catchment Areas Programme (ECA) (1982-1983)6.2 The results of the ECA programme; 6.3 The NIMH National Co-Morbidity Survey (1990-1992) and the NIMH National Co-Morbidity Replication Survey (2001-2003); 7 Other large community-based diagnostic surveys; 7.1 The Chinese National Epidemiological Survey of Mental Disorders (1982); 7.2 In the UK: OPCS Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity in Great Britain; 7.3 Across Europe: The European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD)

7.4 In seventeen countries world wide: The World Mental Health Survey of the World Health Organization7.5 Do large-scale surveys of mental disorders have any effect on the provision of mental health services?; 7.6 General conclusions from the results of surveys; 8 Some problems with research methods used in diagnostic surveys; 8.1 Expressed complaints and inferred symptoms; 8.2 Comparison of complaints and symptoms in field studies; 8.2.1 Comparison of the DIS and the PSE; 8.2.2 Comparison of SCAN and CIDI; 8.3 The use of short rather than lengthy rating scales

8.4 Differences between 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' interviewing schedules

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-164829-9

0-19-176632-1

0-19-164828-0

OCLC:

858968198