The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5®
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ISBN: 0199738173 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, April 2013
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5® examines the latest version of the DSM - the first to appear in over 30 years - and offers mental health practitioners a critical guide for understanding the positive aspects of DSM-5, but also its limitations. Written in a lively voice by a celebrated professor of psychiatry and featuring the latest in psychiatric research and debate, this book is necessary reading for all mental health practitioners using the DSM.
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The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5® explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource. Written by a celebrated professor of psychiatry, this reader-friendly book uses evidence-based critiques and new research to point out where DSM-5 is right, where it is wrong, and where the jury's still out. Along the way, The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5® sifts through the many public controversies and clinical debates surrounding the drafting of the manual and shows how they inform a modern understanding of psychiatric illness, diagnosis and treatment. This book is necessary reading for all mental health professionals as they grapple with the first major revision of the DSM to appear in over 30 years.
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