Adjustment disorder: implications for ICD-11 and DSM-5

Adjustment disorder: implications for ICD-11 and DSM-5.

Adjustment disorder has been a recognised disorder for decades but has been the subject of little epidemiological research. Now researchers have identified the prevalence of adjustment disorder in primary care, and found general practitioner recognition very low but with high rates of antidepressant prescribing. Possible reasons for the seemingly low prevalence, recognition rate and inappropria...

Literature on DSM-5 and ICD-11

Although it’s been more than a year since the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) has been published, articles regarding the new criteria have been appearing since 2011. This is because, any revisions of the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD (whether removal, addition or modification of specific symptoms) had to be supported by strong e...

An empirically based alternative to DSM-5's disruptive mood dysregulation disorder for ICD-11.

Will mania survive DSM-5 and ICD-11?

As a natural phenomenon, mania without major depression will of course survive DSM-5 and ICD-11, but following its integration as a diagnosis into bipolar-I disorder (BP-I) in those manuals, BP-I will be more heterogeneous and, paradoxically, will include a unipolar disorder. Furthermore, unipolar mania will no longer be adequately identified and coded as an independent disorder in public healt...

DSM-5 and ICD-11 definitions of posttraumatic stress disorder: investigating "narrow" and "broad" approaches.

BACKGROUND The development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (DSM-5) and ICD-11 has led to reconsideration of diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys allow investigation of the implications of the changing criteria compared to DSM-IV and ICD-10. METHODS WMH Surveys in 13 countries asked responde...