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

by Frances, Allen

• ISBN13: 9781462513482
• ISBN10: 1462513484
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-16
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This trusted practitioner resource and widely adopted text 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, Allen Frances provides the ICD-9-CM codes and (where feasible) ICD-10-CM codes required for billing, a useful screening question, a descriptive prototype, diagnostic tips, and other disorders that must be ruled out. Frances was instrumental in the development of past editions of DSM and provides helpful cautions on questionable aspects of DSM-5. An index of common presenting symptoms lists possible diagnoses that must be considered for each. The Appendix (which can also be accessed at the companion website) features a Crosswalk to ICD-10-CM codes plus links to coding resources.

Author Biography

Allen Frances, MD, is a clinician, educator, researcher, and leading authority on psychiatric diagnosis. He chaired the DSM-IV Task Force, was a member of the Task Force that prepared DSM-III-R, and wrote the final version of the Personality Disorders section in DSM-III. The author of several hundred papers and more than a dozen books, most recently Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life, Dr. Frances is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. He is an active blogger for The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and Education Update.

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
Appendix. Crosswalk to ICD-10 Codes
Resources for Codes