Depression and anxiety are the most common of all mental illnesses, the services for which continue to grow faster than the rate of population growth. Depression and anxiety can often be managed in the general practitioner’s office, and they are the fourth most common problems brought to general practitioners. People who have either condition are […]
Diagnosis
DSM-5 Updates: Assessment Instruments
We’ve previously published an article with information and resources to help you understand the differences between the DSM-IV and its latest version, the DSM 5. In this post, we turn our focus to DSM-5-relevant instruments to assess clients. With the advent of the DSM-5 in 2013, clinicians wondered if instruments formulated on the basis of the […]
- March 17, 2015
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DSM-IV and DSM-V Differences: Ending the Confusion
The DSM-5 has been out for a year now and — fourteen years in the making — it has been the subject of seemingly endless discussion. Are you “up with the play” on the changes — or just up to your ears in confusion? One source said that there were 464 changes, although many of […]
- June 30, 2014
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