Using DSM-IV: A Clinician's Guide to Psychiatric Diagnosis (Developments in Clinical Psychiatry) - Hardcover

LaBruzza, Anthony; Mendez-Villarrubia, Jose M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568213336 ISBN 13: 9781568213330

Publisher: Jason Aronson Publishers, 1977

Synopsis

Intended for use in conjunction with the American Psychiatric Association's most recent revision of its diagnostic system, the DSM-IV (1994). This text places the DSM-IV in historical perspective and provides an overview of the various definitions and DSM-IV disorders.

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Review

LaBruzza and M ndez-Villarrubia have written a highly readable companion book to DSM-IV. The unique chapter dealing with mental illness in Hispanic cultures is particularly informative. This volume will be very useful for a wide range of mental health professionals.--Malcolm B. Bowers, Jr., M.D.

This book will be welcomed by many with both gratitude and relief: an engaging, thoughtful, moral, and humanistically responsible guide to the DSM-IV. This erudite and thoroughly readable work should be used generously as an indispensable and required text for psychopathology courses in all training institutions for mental health professionals. The explicit focus on issues of diversity in culture, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation is not only laudable for its presence, but for its clarity of exposition.--Theodore J. Ellenhorn, Ph.D, Antioch New England Graduate School

Dr. LaBruzza goes beyond making DSM-IV user friendly. He brings a descriptive manual to life by placing it in the context of the broad scope of Western thought about the form and nature of mental illness.--Peter Kramer, M.D., author of Listening to Prozac

A real lodestar for mental health professionals that explains the whys, wheres, and whens of our latest diagnostic bible and its development. This book, less than half the size of the DSM-IV, is a gem of information and erudition that should be within reach of any colleague involved in patient evaluation.--Stephen Fleck, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

LaBruzza and Mendez-Villarrubia have written a highly readable companion book to DSM-IV. The unique chapter dealing with mental illness in Hispanic cultures is particularly informative. This volume will be very useful for a wide range of mental health professionals.--Malcolm B. Bowers, Jr., M.D., Yale University School of Medicine

Synopsis

This book is intended for use in conjunction with the DSM-IV (1994), the American Psychiatric Association's most recent revision of its diagnostic system. Its goals are threefold: first, it places the DSM-IV in historical perspective to allow clinicians to appreciate the strengths, weaknesses and potential abuses of the diagnostic manual. Second, it provides a concise and accurate overview of the various definitions and DSM-IV disorders to assist students and clinicians in rapidly learning and using the new diagnostic system. And third, in light of the multicultural population many clinicians treat, it addresses the issue of cultural factors in DSM-IV diagnosis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jason Aronson Publishers
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568213336
• ISBN 13: 9781568213330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 459