New Guidelines for Mental Health Therapy
11/02/10 08:56 AM
For the first time in more than 10 years, the American Psychiatric Association is proposing changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which fundamentally outlines what constitutes a mental disorder, and will guide treatment for patients.
The eagerly awaited revisions — to be published, if adopted, in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due in 2013 — would be the first in a decade.
As noted in a recent report in the New York Times, significant changes would include adding “a childhood disorder called temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria, a recommendation that grew out of recent findings that many wildly aggressive, irritable children who have been given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder do not have it.”
Controversial additions include “risk syndromes”, meant to identify the potential for developing a disorder, “hypersexuality”, and “binge eating disorder.”
Thoughts? Comments?
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/health/10psych.html?em.
The eagerly awaited revisions — to be published, if adopted, in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due in 2013 — would be the first in a decade.
As noted in a recent report in the New York Times, significant changes would include adding “a childhood disorder called temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria, a recommendation that grew out of recent findings that many wildly aggressive, irritable children who have been given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder do not have it.”
Controversial additions include “risk syndromes”, meant to identify the potential for developing a disorder, “hypersexuality”, and “binge eating disorder.”
Thoughts? Comments?
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/health/10psych.html?em.
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