The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a tool used by healthcare professionals to diagnose, classify, and understand mental health conditions. The DSM standardizes criteria ...

Finally. After many contentious years, the American Psychiatric Assn. has unleashed DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If you know one thing about ...

Last week, I had a brief, but heated debate with a friend who is on the DSM 5 Task Force. He is strongly supporting a proposed new diagnosis for DSM 5 that I oppose just as strongly. Surprisingly, I ...

I just received a very important email from Dr. Dayle Jones who chairs the DSM-5 Task Force of the American Counseling Association (ACA). Counselors provide a wide range of therapy, rehabilitation, ...