Specifiers
This specifier is used to describe the intensity of a disorder, usually categorized as mild moderate, or this.
What is severe?
This code is used for a major depressive disorder, single episode, unspecified.
What is F32.9?
To meet the duration criteria for a Major Depressive Episode, symptoms must be present for at least this many consecutive weeks
What is 2 weeks?
In schizophrenia, hearing voices when no one is present
What is auditory hallucination?
In schizophrenia, the typical age of onset
What is early adulthood?
This specifier is used when an individual no longer meets the full criteria for a disorder but still has some symptoms.
What is "in partial remission"?
This code represents generalized anxiety disorder, one of the most common codes used in outpatient therapy
What is F41.1?
For a diagnoses of generalized anxiety disorder, an individual must experience excessive anxiety and worry more days than not for at least this many months.
What is 6 months?
In Obsessive compulsive disorder, repeated behaviors that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession
What is a compulsion?
To meet criteria for this neurodevelopment disorder, several inattentive or hyperactive-impulsive symptoms must be present prior to age 12.
What is Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
For major depressive disorder, this is a far is used if the person experiences a loss of pleasure in nearly all activities
What is "with melancholic features"?
If a client meets criteria for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), you would use this code.
What is F43.10?
To be diagnosed with panic disorder, a person needs to experience persistent concern about having more panic attacks after experiencing one panic attack for this many months.
What is one month?
Nine letter word describes a core symptoms of major depressive disorder. A significantly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities.
What is an Anhedonia?
In antisocial personality disorder, the diagnosis cannot be given before this age.
What is 18 years old?
This specifier is added to mood disorders if the symptom consistently begins and ends during certain times of the year.
What is "with seasonal pattern"?
This is the code for adjustment disorder, unspecified
What is F43.20?
For adults, persistent depressive disorder (Dysthymia) requires a depressed mood for most of the day, for more days than not, for at least this many years.
What is two years?
This term describes the physical restlessness often seen in ADHD or depression, such as pacing, hand wringing, or the inability to sit still.
What is psychomotor agitation?
WILD CARD! In Alcohol Use Disorder, this many symptoms would qualify for a "moderate" severity.
This specifier is used when a client has more than two different disorders occurring at the same time
What is Comorbid?
This code is used for persistent depressive disorder, also known as this dysthymia.
What is F31.12?
If a person has PTSD symptoms but they have lasted for less than one month, the correct diagnosis is actually this.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
In schizophrenia, when an individual believes falsely that another person is in love with them
What is Erotomanic delusion?
WILD CARD! In Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Relationships are largely this way and exist to serve self-esteem regulation
What is "superficial"?
This specifier is used in PTSD when a person feels detached from their own body as if the world is "unreal".
What is "with dissociative symptoms"?
For a diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, current episode manic, moderate, do you use this specific code.
What is F31.12?
In the DSM, prolonged grief disorder can only be diagnosed in adults if the bereaved persons grief has persisted at least this long after the death.
What is 12 months?
This symptom involves a nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes it from topic to topic, common in manic episodes.
What is flight of ideas?
WILD CARD!!! The DSM 5-TR was published this year
What is 2022?