Case Studies of Mental Disorders in the United States

Author: Robert
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: These cases include both our own and those provided by other clinical workers. Many of these clinical workers are renowned experts in specific diagnostic and treatment fields, and the identities of the patients have been disguised by altering their ages, occupations, and sometimes their locations. We often request case providers to supplement decisive diagnostic information. We never artificially create missing details, as sometimes, like in actual practice, only a tentative diagnosis can be made or a diagnosis is presented as part of differential diagnosis. After each case in this book, there is a discussion of the diagnosis based on the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. It includes important diagnostic considerations, such as the rationale for using each specific diagnosis and other mental disorders to consider when forming each diagnosis. Some cases cannot yield a definitive diagnosis due to insufficient data, ambiguous clinical features, or issues with the classification system itself. The book is divided into five chapters, covering adult, pediatric and adolescent, multi-axis assessment, international, and historical cases. The international cases are grouped by region, and the historical cases are grouped by author.