DSM-5-TR Self-Exam Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria
Synopsis
DSM-5-TR Self-Exam Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria
elucidates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth
Edition, Text Revision, through self-exam questions designed to test the
reader's knowledge of the new edition's diagnostic criteria. Mental health
professionals, ranging from clinicians and students to psychiatric nurses and
social workers, will benefit from this substantive text's 400-plus questions.
This book is a "must have" for anyone seeking to fully understand the content of
DSM-5-TR. Some of the book's most beneficial features include the following:
Self-exam questions and cases designed to test the reader's knowledge
of diagnoses and diagnostic criteria (e.g., the new diagnosis, prolonged grief
disorder). Questions about selected conceptual components of Section III in
DSM-5-TR-including the online assessment measures, Cultural Formulation
Interview, and alternative model of personality disorders-enabling readers to
learn about important diagnostic considerations and tools, as well as potential
future diagnostic approaches. Short answers that explain the rationale for each
correct answer, with page references to content in DSM-5-TR for further
information. Answers containing important information on the diagnostic
classification, criteria sets, diagnoses, codes, severity, dimension of
diagnosis, and considerations of culture, age, and gender.
Straightforward, practical, and illustrative, DSM-5-TR Self-Exam
Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria will successfully test and
broaden the DSM-5-TR knowledge of all mental health professionals.
Publisher information
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- ISBN: 9781615375097
- Number of pages: 488
- Dimensions: 179 x 257 x 24 mm
- Weight: 850g
- Languages: English
