DSM Archive
In the behavioral sciences it is often very difficult to know if we are on the same page. This confusion plagues many of our discussions. How do we define our terms? How do we manage useful disagreement? Are we even …
Where Are the Social Workers? One Social Worker’s Road to Active Opposition to the New DSM Jack Carney, DSW January 2014 The following is the third part of a serialized, four-part version of a larger article that has been accepted …
Genetic scientists believe that a possible cause of schizophrenia could be reversed, eliminating symptoms of the disorder. The study focuses on Neuregulin(NRG1), a protein that plays an important role in synapses, and the development and identification of different cells in …
I continue to come across articles and information regarding the soon to be released DSM-5. Reading this link will provide quite a bit of information on the upcoming changes to the DSM. I have to wonder if our society is …
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions I cannot imagine any circumstance in which an infant age one or under would ever be prescribed an anti-anxiety medication, let alone one in the benzodiazepine family. I cannot even imagine …
So, by now many have heard the American Psychological Association has finished it’s current revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM. The DSM, in the US, is the standard by which conditions are coded, and therefor recognized, and approved as reimbursable. Granted, you cannot make …
