Dsm-IV Sourcebook: v. 1 - Hardcover

" "DSM-IV Sourcebook" sheds light on different aspects of diagnostic problems and shows possible ways for their future solutions. In a concise and critical approach, the complexity of addiction is made clear, and any simplifications that might still be appealing for some researchers and therapists are definitely rejected. The interested reader, whether engaged more in research or in therapy, with find in this book an attractive reading matter and available aid and this applies for all sections of this DSM-IV sourcebook of 1994."-- "Alcohol and Alcoholism"

For over six years the DSM-IV Task Force and members of the DSM-IV Work Groups have participated in a comprehensive effort of empirical review leading to the publication of the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric AssociationAs Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). This first volume of the DSM-IV Sourcebook chronicles these efforts and their results, documenting the rationale and empirical support for the text and criteria sets presented in DSM-IV. From a total of five volumes, the first three contain the DSM-IV literature reviews and summarize the DSM-IV Work Group efforts that led to the publication of the DSM-IV Options Book. This, the first volume, presents the reviews for substance use disorders; delirium, dementia, and amnestic and other cognitive disorders; psychotic disorders; medication-induced movement disorders; and sleep disorders. Each review contains the following six sections: -Statement of the issueexplicitly outlines the issues addressed in the review. -Significance of the issueAframes the importance of each issue and discusses its clinical and empirical significance. -MethodAdocuments the extent to which the reviews were systematic and comprehensive in their coverage of the literature. -ResultsAprovides an objective and thorough summary of the findings most relevant to each issue. -DiscussionAaddresses the implications of the clinical research findings for DSM-IV. -RecommendationsArecommendations for DSM-IV based on the review of the literature.