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Throughout the world, people suffer from mental disorders that require treatment. In order to treat a patient that has a mental disorder, health care professionals use a handbook called The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) that is a guide to diagnosing a patient. DSM includes specific criteria involving symptoms and the description. The handbook is updated due to changes or modification. Health professionals migrated from the fourth edition to the fifth edition. For instance, I was assigned dissociation disorder which is when a person has a condition the disrupts their memory process, identity, or perception (Wang 2016). When viewing the disorder through the American Psychiatric Association, I notice changes with numerous mental conditions; however, dissociation disorder was not in the list of changes. What I did see is the dissociation disorder may be associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The changes are mostly modified and state a clearer line in detail in the fifth edition as opposed to the fourth edition. The fifth edition explains more behavior symptoms. I can see where the DD and PTSD have similar descriptions because they both can be a result of a traumatic experience or stress …show more content…

For years health professionals used the ninth edition and in recent years ICD book it was modified to the tenth edition. The ICD 10 book categorized dissociation disorder under neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders F40-F48. Dissociation disorders have a list of different types of disorders which include amnesia, fugue, stupor, trance and possession and the list goes on. Being that I was only given dissociation disorder and no description of the condition I would probably use the dissociative (conversion) disorder, unspecified

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According to the American Psychiatric Association, the new DSM-V includes “changes as well as advancements in neuroscience, clinical and public health need, and identified problems with the classification system and criteria put forth in the DSM-IV”. The revised DSM-5 explores changes in diagnostic criterias that is believed to have a better clinical impact as well as demonstrating their goal to improve compatibility, and integration of cultural context. Many of these changes in the DSM-5 were to better characterize symptoms and behaviors of patients that were in need of clinical help. Their symptoms were not well classified in the previous DSM-IV. Better defining disorders, diagnosis and clinical care in the DSM-V seem to be well improved with the help of new research that have improved a better understanding of mental disorders.

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