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somatization disorder diagnostic criteria
Somatization Disorder Diagnosis As a diagnostic entity, somatization disorder is a fairly recent addition to the DSM nomenclature and was intended as a simplified version of Briquet’s syndrome. Somatization disorder was officially recognized in DSM-III and was also included in DSM-III-R with some minor changes. Before DSM-III, the criteria for Briquet’s syndrome required at least […]
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diagnostic criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD)
diagnostic criteria Structured Clinical Interviews There is no definitive diagnostic tool available for making any psychiatric diagnosis, but the clinical interview currently stands as the linchpin of a multiaxial, multimodal assessment protocol. With a goal of improving diagnostic validity and reliability, a number of structured and semistructured clinical interviews have been developed to assess psychological […]
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DSM-IV PTSD Diagnostic Criteria
Current Diagnostic Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With the publication of the 4th edition of the DSM, the concept of trauma evolved from focusing on uncommon, highly adverse, external events to describing the specific characteristics of a traumatic event, including the individual’s psychological response to the event regardless of whether the event is rare or […]
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Modern diagnostic criteria of paedophilia
DSM-IV-TR defi ned paedophilia as ‘recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children’ and that the person has acted on these urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal diff i culty. In addition, the perpetrator has to be at least 16 […]
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DSM diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia
For a diagnosis of schizophrenia to be made, DSM-IV-TR states that two or more of the following symptoms should be present for a signifi cant period of time during a one-month period: delusions hallucinations disorganized speech: frequent derailment or incoherence grossly disorganized or behaviour negative symptoms: catatonic flattened mood, alogia or avolition. Only one of […]
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