Neurodevelopmental Disorders
The essential feature is a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning.
ADHD
To meet criteria for this diagnosis, a child’s fear or anxiety regarding being away from attachment figures must last at least 4 weeks.
Separation Anxiety Disorder
A pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least 6 months.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
In children and adolescents, this diagnosis allows for an irritable mood rather than just a depressed mood, and must last for at least 2 weeks.
Major Depressive Disorder
Adjustment Disorder symptoms must develop within this many months of the onset of the stressor.
3 months
The DSM-5-TR clarified that this disorder requires deficits in both social communication and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
This is characterized by marked fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the child is exposed to possible scrutiny by others.
Social Anxiety Disorder
The DSM-5-TR replaced the term "Substance Abuse" and "Substance Dependence" with this single, unified term.
Substance Use Disorder
In children, this disorder is characterized by severe recurrent temper outbursts that are "grossly out of proportion in intensity or duration to the situation" followed by a persistent irritable mood.
Disruptive Mood Disregulation Disorder
This specifier is used when an individual experiences PTSD symptoms but also feels "detached from one’s body" or as if the "world is unreal."
Disassociative symptoms/Depersonalization
Deficits in adaptive functioning (conceptual, social, and practical domains) that begin during the developmental period.
Intellectual Developmental Disorder
In children, this diagnosis requires excessive worry about multiple events (like schoolwork or sports) for at least 6 months, but only one physical symptom is needed.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms are violated.
Conduct Disorder
This specific type of "ideation" or "behavior" now has its own unique T-codes for reporting in the DSM-5-TR, separate from mental disorders.
Suicidal Behavior/Non-suicidal self injury
This diagnosis involves a consistent pattern of inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behavior toward adult caregivers, often following a history of caregiver changes and neglect.
Reactive Attachment Disorder
This diagnosis is categorized by difficulties in social communication where repetitive and restrictive behaviors do not exist.
Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder
This diagnosis involves the presence of obsessions or compulsions; the DSM-5-TR notes that children may perform these behaviors to "make things feel right" without being able to explain why.
OCD
This disorder involves recurrent behavioral outbursts representing a failure to control aggressive impulses.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
For this chronic diagnosis in children, the mood must be present for more days than not for at least 1 year (as opposed to 2 years in adults).
Persistent Depressive Disorder/Dysthymia
A diagnosis for a child who seeks out and interacts with unfamiliar adults in an overly familiar, uninhibited manner.
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
This diagnosis is given when a child’s academic skills in reading, writing, or math are substantially below those expected for their age, and must persist for at least 6 months despite targeted interventions.
Specific Learning Disability
This diagnosis is characterized by recurrent, unexpected surges of intense fear that reach a peak within minutes, often manifesting in children as physical complaints like palpitations or sweating.
Panic Disorder
In adolescents, this diagnosis requires at least two symptoms within a 12-month period, such as using more than intended or "craving," and notably excludes the symptom of "legal problems" found in older editions.
Substance Use Disorder
In children, this diagnosis requires a distinct period of abnormally elevated or expansive mood; the DSM-5-TR notes it is often comorbid with ADHD and must be distinguished from the "chronic" irritability of DMDD.
Bipolar Disorder
In children over age 6, this diagnosis requires exposure to a traumatic event followed by symptoms in four clusters (intrusion, avoidance, negative cognitions/mood, and arousal) lasting for more than one month.
PTSD