DESCRIPTION:
Designed for interviewers at all levels of experience, The Pocket Guide to the DSM-5-TR Diagnostic Exam is the clinician""s companion for using DSM-5-TR in diagnostic interviews. Both experienced clinicians and those still in training will benefit from the thoughtful, yet practical, fashion in which DSM-5 revisions are reviewed and incorporated into the 30-minute diagnostic interview.
This guide is written for all levels of experience, since every clinician needs to master both DSM-5-TR criteria and how to conduct a fruitful diagnostic interview.
The book:
- Provides insight into the process of establishing a therapeutic alliance, which remains the goal of any psychiatric encounter, even one as brief as the diagnostic interview.
- Offers an extensive set of resources to enhance understanding. These include a brief, easy-to-use summary of DSM-5-TR disorders the Mental Status Examination and a psychiatric glossary suggestions for mental health treatment planning guidance for the ABPN Clinical Skills Evaluation DSM-5-TR-related diagnostic tools and scales and coverage of alternative diagnostic systems and rating scales.
- Provides a sequential framework for generating a differential diagnosis, using a six-step approach, that will help clinicians develop their clinical decision-making skills and ensure that they consider the many and interrelated causes of mental disorders.
Direct, practical, and informative, The Pocket Guide to the DSM-5-TR Diagnostic Exam will enable readers to efficiently and effectively employ DSM-5 as part of a comprehensive diagnostic interview.
CONTENTS:
Preface
Section I
Introduction to the Diagnostic Interview
Alliance Building During a Diagnostic Interview
The 30-Minute Diagnostic Interview
Personalizing Diagnoses Through Dimensions
Key Changes in DSM-5-TR
Section II
The DSM-5-TR Diagnostic Interview
Section III
A Brief Version of DSM-5-TR
Six Questions to a Differential Diagnosis
A Mental Status Examination: With Essential Psychiatric Glossary
Mental Health Treatment Planning
The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Clinical Skills Evaluation
Selected DSM-5-TR Assessment Measures
Dimensional Diagnosis of Personality Disorders
Alternative Diagnostic Systems and Rating Scales
References
Index
