The proceedings of a conference convened by the APA, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the book explores a dimensional approach to diagnosing substance dependence, major depressive episode, psychosis, anxiety disorders, developmental psychopathology, and personality disorders.
About the Author :
John E. Helzer, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Health Behavior Research Center at University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont.
Helena Chmura Kraemer, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Biostatistics in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Robert F. Krueger, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology, and Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavior Genetics in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapo¬lis, Minnesota.
Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Technische Univer¬sität Dresden in Dresden, Germany.
Paul J. Sirovatka, M.S., was Director of Research Policy Analysis at the Division of Research and American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education at the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia.
Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H., is Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education and Director of the Division of Research at the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia.
Review :
Dimensional Approaches in Diagnostic Classification, by Helzer and colleagues, has a timely focus on refining the research agenda for DSM-V, advocating a stronger dimensional emphasis to our categorically structured current DSM -IV.
Students, researchers, and clinicians alike will find this text useful.
This informative new book details the dimensional approach to psychiatric nosology. Clinicians actually do not treat patients according to the DSM categories (or the diagnostic criteria) but rather use the heuristic of target symptoms. Clinicians and researchers who are interested in understanding the rationale for the modifications proposed in the next iteration of the DSM should read this book.
