Besides, this syndrome shouldn't merely be a culturally accepted response to a particular event for example, the death of a loved one. A mistake that society continues to make is the belief that the classification of psychiatric disorders also classifies people and not just the disorders that these people happen to have.
The manual is organized first with the instructions for use, the classification of the disorders a list of codes and categories , the description of the multi-axial system that DSM-IV operates with and the diagnostic criteria for each disorder along with a description and information on each one.
This system refers to the five axes that belong to different areas of information that can help the clinician to determine treatment and predict the results of this.
The use of the axes facilitates complete evaluation of pathologies that the patient shows signs of. The five categories in this classification include:. This coding system is used to gather medical information and ease process of collecting data and communicating diagnoses with governmental institutions, insurance companies, and even the World Health Organization WHO.
The DSM IV adds a description of each mental disorder including different categories for each one of them. Below, we describe the rubric for most of the disorders in the manual:. DSM IV disorders fall into 16 major diagnostic classes like substance-related disorders, mood disorders, or anxiety and an additional section called "other conditions that could be a focus of clinical attention.
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