Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

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This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health disorders, information about the, and the criteria needed for a diagnosis. The most recent edition, DSM-5, has dramatic changes in it in both structure, content, and substance. This paper reports and discusses some of the changes and changes clinicians need to make for diagnoses. There are three sources used in this four page paper.