UNDERSTANDING DSM-5 PART 1 OVERVIEW

Course overview

In this program on the DSM-5, our speakers discuss the details and implications for practice of this new guideline which is going to change the way we view, diagnose and treat mental illness. The arrival of a new DSM is always an awkward moment for psychiatry. It¿s a rewriting of the rules of engagement with the human mind and a tacit admission of past errors, errors that have caused irreparable harm. This new manual, thirteen years in the making, while incorporating new understandings of diagnostic categories, may also require re-diagnosis of patients whose long standing diagnoses simply disappear, or reassign diagnoses to categories with different reimbursement implications. Laura Groshong, LICSW, gives us an overview, highlighting the most significant changes and differences between the DSM-5 and the DSM IV-TR, the manual it replaces.