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DSM-IV-TR® Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

The standard diagnostic tool used by mental health professionals worldwide to promote reliable research, accurate diagnosis, and thus appropriate treatment and patient care. Each psychiatric disorder with its corresponding diagnostic code is accompanied by a set of diagnostic criteria and descriptive details including associated features, prevalence, familial patterns, age-, culture-, and gender-specific features, and differential diagnosis.

DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis

Includes the Symptom Index

A succinct reference to help ensure that all important diagnoses that need to be ruled out during a clinical evaluation are considered. Outlined are the six crucial steps in differential diagnosis that must be considered for every patient. Plus, 27 decision trees delineate how to go from the most common presenting symptoms to a final diagnosis, and 62 differential diagnosis tables provide a head-to-head comparison of a disorder with its differential diagnostic contenders.

Cases From DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and Its Treatment Companion

Robert L. Spitzer, M.D.; Miriam Gibbon, M.S.W.; Andrew E. Skodol, M.D.; Janet B. W. Williams, D.S.W.; Michael B. First, M.D.

Real-world cases that bring DSM diagnostic criteria and treatment to life. Case studies provide an effective opportunity to practice the principles of differential diagnosis with a wide range of patients and can provide exposure to diagnostic categories not often encountered in clinical practice. For selected cases, world-renowned experts provide in-depth discussions of state-of-the-art approaches to treatment.