Demystifying the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Provides an introduction to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which helps mental health professionals to understand and diagnose mental illness.
This video provides an introduction to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and discusses its goal of understanding and diagnosing mental illness. Then it discusses the changes and improvements of the DSM over its last five editions, and what those changes mean. Finally, it outlines some limitations of the DSM including its much-criticized categorical approach to mental illness.
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