#PTSD CRITERIA DSM 5 MANUAL#

2 Both of these proposed diagnoses were developed to expand the reach of PTSD to victims of early childhood abuse who do not exhibit the classic symptoms of DSM-IV PTSD, but rather a range of symptoms overlapping with those of borderline personality disorder. Second, in the DSM-5 web site section, Criteria Proposed by Outside Sources, the site lists Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) and Disorders of Extreme Stress not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS). 1 In this thorough review the chapter authors demonstrate a sensitivity to cultural issues in diagnosis. First, the authors of the DSM-5 white paper monograph, A Research Agenda for DSM-V, devote a chapter of the text to вЂњBeyond the Funhouse Mirrors: Research Agenda on Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis,вЂќ including a section on PTSD. In this piece I choose PTSD to show the complexity of the cultural issue for DSM-5.

This left untouched the question of whether some of the diagnoses in the main body of the text were compromised by unacknowledged cultural differences. DSM-IV dealt with cultural difference by relegating a number of culture-specific clinical entities to an appendix at the back of the manual. The description and diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia must work as well in East Timor as in the US or France.

#PTSD CRITERIA DSM 5 MANUAL#

Any effort to develop a diagnostic manual for world-wide use must grapple with the question of cross-cultural applicability.

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