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APA proposes changes to organizational structure of DSM-5.

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  • Author(s): Regier, Darrel
  • Source:
    Mental Health Weekly. 5/30/2011, Vol. 21 Issue 21, p3-4. 2p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      PSYCHIATRY; CLASSIFICATION of mental disorders; NOSOLOGY; SOCIETIES
    • Abstract:
      The article informs that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is revising the organizational structure of the diagnostic categories in the fifth edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)," It is given that the changes include reordering of the existing manual's 16 chapters based on underlying vulnerabilities and symptoms in patients suffering from multiple mental disorders and placing them under more comprehensive headings.