The Nuts and Bolts of Diagnosis

Have you ever sat at your desk, or work space, opened the DSM IV and seriously attempted to digest the criteria? What do you make of the exclusionary criteria, riders, modifiers, specifiers, or whatever these are called nowadays? And if you think it’s a challenge now, just wait for what DSM-5 has in store for you. So why the complexity, why is there seemingly so much for us to have to wade through? Here’s why: […]