DSM-5-TR (R) Handbook of Differential Diagnosis

The DSM-5-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis is
the preeminent guide to differential diagnosis for both clinicians and
students learning psychiatric diagnosis. Fully updated to reflect the recent
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth
Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), this handbook includes two newly
developed diagnostic trees (for dissociative symptoms and repetitive
pathological behaviors). This indispensable guide offers a rich selection of
diagnostic lenses through which to consider symptomatic presentations,
grounded in the latest research and standards of practice.

Written by
the DSM-5-TR Editor, an expert on psychiatric diagnosis and assessment, the
handbook guides clinicians and students on how to differentiate between
disorders with similar presentations in an accessible, easy-to-use format.
An assortment of approaches to differential diagnosis and a number of
features designed to benefit the evaluation include:
* A six-step
framework for diagnosing patients that proceeds from determining if the
presenting symptoms are due to a substance/medication or a medical
condition, to establishing the boundary between disorder and normality, to
determining the primary disorder, and differentiating adjustment disorders
from other mental disorders.
* Thirty symptom-oriented decision trees,
two of which are new to this edition, that provide detailed decision points
to facilitate the process of generating the differential diagnosis based on
the presenting symptoms and eliminate formulating premature
conclusions.
* Sixty-seven differential diagnosis tables, one for each
of the most important disorders in DSM-5-TR, cross-referenced with the
terminal branches of the decision trees presented in the handbook and that
provide a head-to-head comparison of each disorder, highlighting
similarities and differences.
* The DSM-5-TR Classification, to
facilitate coding and to provide an overview of all the DSM-5-TR diagnoses
that must be considered in formulating a differential diagnosis.


DSM-5-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis provides a
comprehensive overview of the process of diagnosing DSM-5-TR disorders while
serving as a reference guide to assist in the differential diagnosis of
individual patients. Clinicians and students learning psychiatric diagnosis
faced with this most crucial task will find this handbook of enormous
benefit.