DSM-5-TR® Self-Exam Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria

DSM-5-TR Self-Exam Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria elucidates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision, through self-exam questions designed to test the reader's knowledge of the new edition's diagnostic criteria. Mental health professionals, ranging from clinicians and students to psychiatric nurses and social workers, will benefit from this substantive text's 400-plus questions. This book is a "must have" for anyone seeking to fully understand the content of DSM-5-TR. Some of the book's most beneficial features include the following: • Self-exam questions and cases designed to test the reader's knowledge of diagnoses and diagnostic criteria (e.g., the new diagnosis, prolonged grief disorder).• Questions about selected conceptual components of Section III in DSM-5-TR—including the online assessment measures, Cultural Formulation Interview, and alternative model of personality disorders—enabling readers to learn about important diagnostic considerations and tools, as well as potential future diagnostic approaches.• Short answers that explain the rationale for each correct answer, with page references to content in DSM-5-TR for further information.• Answers containing important information on the diagnostic classification, criteria sets, diagnoses, codes, severity, dimension of diagnosis, and considerations of culture, age, and gender. Straightforward, practical, and illustrative, DSM-5-TR Self-Exam Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria will successfully test and broaden the DSM-5-TR knowledge of all mental health professionals.

About the Author

Philip R. Muskin, M.D., M.A., DLFAPA, LFACLP, is Professor of Psychiatry and Senior? Consultant in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Centerin New York. Anna L. Dickerman, M.D., FAPA, FACLP, is Chief, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service,Program Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship; Associate Attending? Psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital; and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatryat Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Andrew T. Drysdale, M.D., Ph.D., is Assistant in Clinical, Department of Psychiatry, at? Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Department of? Psychiatry, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center; and Fellow at New York State? Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University in New York. Claire C. Holderness, M.D., DFAPA, is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia? University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Attending Psychiatristat New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York. Maalobeeka Gangopadhyay, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia? University Irving Medical Center; Director of Acute Services, Child and Adolescent? Psychiatry, at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital; and Medical? Director, Quality and Patient Safety NYP-Columbia, Department of Psychiatry, at New? York-Presbyterian in New York.