The DSM -
IV psychiatric diagnoses were made at 91 months using the Development and Well - being Assessment (DAWBA) 35 based on parent and teacher reports.
The SCAN interviews were used for computerized DSM -
IV psychiatric diagnoses, including Hypochondriasis according to DSM - IV criteria.
Not exact matches
(
iv) A social worker: an individual with at least a bachelor's degree in human services or related field (social work, psychology,
psychiatric rehabilitation, sociology, counseling, vocational rehabilitation, human services counseling or other degree deemed equivalent to those described) from an accredited college and with at least one year of clinical experience providing direct services to individuals with a
diagnosis of mental illness.
397 patients who were 18 — 65 years of age, had a
diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder according to DSM -
IV criteria, had required intensive
psychiatric treatment within 24 months before study entry, had received a stable dose of antipsychotic medication for ≥ 30 days before study entry, had resided at the same address for ≥ 30 days before study entry, and were judged clinically stable by the principal investigator.
Children's
psychiatric disorders at baseline and the 3 - month evaluation were established by direct interview of mothers and children using the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia — Present and Lifetime Version, 22 a widely used valid and reliable diagnostic assessment that generates DSM -
IV diagnoses.
Among other points of critique, the DSM -
IV Hypochondriasis
diagnosis has been criticized for being poorly and arbitrarily defined overlapping with other somatoform and
psychiatric disorders [1], [4], [5], [19], [20].
Participants were included if they were right - handed, native English speakers with normal or corrected - to - normal vision and reported no history of neurological or
psychiatric disorders with a confirmed absence of DSM -
IV Axis I
diagnoses using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM -
IV and were also free of psychoactive medications and had a verbal IQ ≥ 97, performance IQ ≥ 98, and full - scale IQ ≥ 98 as measured by the American National Adult Reading Test.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is 1 of only 2 DSM -
IV diagnoses for which suicidal behavior is a criterion.1 Borderline personality disorder is a severe and persistent mental disorder experience of severe emotional distress and behavioral dyscontrol.1 - 3 Among patients with BPD, 69 % to 80 % engage in suicidal behavior,4 - 9 with a suicide rate of up to 9 %.10 Forty percent of the highest users of inpatient
psychiatric services receive a
diagnosis of BPD.11, 12 Patients with BPD use more services than those with major depression13 and other personality disorders.14 Among patients with BPD seen for treatment, 72 % have had at least 1
psychiatric hospitalization and 97 % have received outpatient treatment from a mean of 6.1 previous therapists.15, 16 Despite this high - use pattern, patients with BPD have high rates of treatment failure.17, 18
The Child and Adolescent
Psychiatric Assessment scoring algorithms can be used to generate either
diagnoses made using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM -
IV), 30 or scale scores that count the number of DSM -
IV psychiatric symptoms relating to any of 29 separate
diagnoses or groups of
diagnoses.
Such analyses are an important part of
psychiatric epidemiology, which in contrast with general epidemiology, deals with changing content of
diagnoses and continuing refinement of taxonomic constructs.23 One important finding from these studies on TRAILS data was that only few adolescents had exclusively DSM -
IV anxiety or exclusively DSM -
IV depressive symptoms (DSM -
IV = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, 4th edition).
The
psychiatric diagnosis Reactive attachment disorder (RAD)(DSM -
IV - R 313.89) can be understood as the result of significant impairment in the intersubjective sharing of experience between caregiver and child.
The NIMH DISC -
IV is a structured interview to asses more than 30 common child - and adolescent
psychiatric diagnoses, according to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
IV (DSM -
IV).
Data on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria for mental disorders were derived from administration of selected modules of the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, version
IV, a structured diagnostic interview administered by lay interviewers to assess
psychiatric diagnoses of children and adolescents.
The DAWBA is a valid hybrid between a structured and a semi-structured interview for the
diagnosis of child and adolescent
psychiatric disorders according to both the ICD - 10 and DSM -
IV [60, 61].