DSM-5-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis

The DSM-5-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis is the preeminent guide to
differential diagnosis for both clinicians and students learning psychiatric
diagnosis. Fully updated to reflect the recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), this handbook
includes two newly developed diagnostic trees (for dissociative symptoms and
repetitive pathological behaviors). This indispensable guide offers a rich
selection of diagnostic lenses through which to consider symptomatic
presentations, grounded in the latest research and standards of
practice.

Written by the DSM-5-TR Editor, an expert on psychiatric
diagnosis and assessment, the handbook guides clinicians and students on how to
differentiate between disorders with similar presentations in an accessible,
easy-to-use format. An assortment of approaches to differential diagnosis and a
number of features designed to benefit the evaluation include: A six-step
framework for diagnosing patients that proceeds from determining if the
presenting symptoms are due to a substance/medication or a medical condition, to
establishing the boundary between disorder and normality, to determining the
primary disorder, and differentiating adjustment disorders from other mental
disorders. Thirty symptom-oriented decision trees, two of which are new to this
edition, that provide detailed decision points to facilitate the process of
generating the differential diagnosis based on the presenting symptoms and
eliminate formulating premature conclusions. Sixty-seven differential diagnosis
tables, one for each of the most important disorders in DSM-5-TR,
cross-referenced with the terminal branches of the decision trees presented in
the handbook and that provide a head-to-head comparison of each disorder,
highlighting similarities and differences. The DSM-5-TR Classification, to
facilitate coding and to provide an overview of all the DSM-5-TR diagnoses that
must be considered in formulating a differential diagnosis.

DSM-5-TR
Handbook of Differential Diagnosis provides a comprehensive overview of the
process of diagnosing DSM-5-TR disorders while serving as a reference guide to
assist in the differential diagnosis of individual patients. Clinicians and
students learning psychiatric diagnosis faced with this most crucial task will
find this handbook of enormous benefit.