Full Description
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 300-plus questions. This book is a "must have" for anyone seeking to fully understand the changes brought about by the groundbreaking publication of DSM-5 and 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 conceptual changes in DSM-5-TR (e.g., autism spectrum disorder), specific changes to diagnoses (e.g., the integration of childhood disorders within main disorders), and diagnostic criteria (e.g., the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorders).
Questions about each diagnosis in DSM-5-TR, including the proposed diagnoses in Section III, which enable readers to learn about new and potential future diagnoses.
Short answers that explain the rationale for each correct answer, with page references to DSM-5-TR for further information.
Answers containing important information on diagnostic classifications, criteria sets, diagnoses, codes, severity, dimension of diagnosis, 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 knowledge of all mental health professionals.
