DSM Basics
This manual provides standardized criteria for diagnosing mental disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
A loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities.
What is anhedonia?
In addition to anxiety, this emotional response is common in anxiety disorders
What is fear?
False, fixed beliefs that are not culturally sanctioned.
What are delusions?
Clinicians use this process to rule out medical and substance-related causes before diagnosing a mental disorder.
What is differential diagnosis?
This organization publishes the DSM-5-TR
What is the American Psychiatric Association?
A period of pervasive sadness lasting at least two weeks.
What is a major depressive episode?
A key element of this disorder is a child rarely or minimally turns preferentially to an attachment figure for comfort, support, protection, and nurturance
What is reactive attachment disorder?
Hearing voices that no one else hears.
What are auditory hallucinations?
This DSM-5-TR tool helps assess how culture influences symptom expression and meaning. (One of our guest speakers discussed this tool)
What is the Cultural Formulation Interview?
While the DSM-5-TR provides detailed diagnostic criteria, billing and insurance claims typically rely on codes from this international diagnostic manual.
International Classification of Diseases 10 (ICD-10)
This type of elevated mood episode does not cause marked impairment or hospitalization.
What is hypomania?
This disorder's primary symptom is intense fear of being judged or embarrassed in social situations.
What is social anxiety disorder?
For schizophrenia, symptoms must persist for at least this long.
What is six months?
When a client meets diagnostic criteria for more than one disorder.
What is comorbidity?
This section of the DSM-5-TR includes the cross-cutting symptom measures and cultural formulation tools.
What is Section III?
A cheerful, high-energy client with racing thoughts, impulsive spending, and little sleep may be experiencing this.
What is a manic episode?
Being constantly on alert for danger demonstrates this trauma-related symptom.
What is hypervigilance?
Believing a TV news anchor is sending you secret messages is an example of this.
What are ideas of reference?
When a clinician’s personal cultural background influences how they interpret a client’s behavior or symptoms, this may occur.
What is clinician cultural bias?
These two diagnostic categories allow clinicians to describe clinically significant symptoms that don’t meet full criteria for a specific disorder.
What are “Other Specified” and “Unspecified” disorders?
When a client’s emotional expression doesn’t match the content of what they’re saying—such as laughing while describing a tragedy—it’s called this.
What is incongruent affect?
A person who reports watching themselves from outside their body during a traumatic event is demonstrating this psychological process.
What is dissociation?
This disorder includes both psychotic symptoms and major mood episodes occurring at the same time.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
To promote equity and reduce bias in diagnosis, clinicians are encouraged to use this form of language, which avoids defining clients by their disorders or deficits.
What is non-stigmatizing language?