ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders - Paperback

Searching behavioral issues icd 10 gets you a code, and this is the WHO volume those codes come from, description attached to each.

Details

The clinical version of chapter five of the ICD-10, field tested by more than 700 clinicians across 40 countries before anything was fixed in print.

Disorders sit in ten themed groups rather than in a flat alphabetical run.

How it works

Each entry opens on the main clinical picture, then the looser associated features. The guidelines state how many symptoms, in what balance, and over what period.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria follow, along with the conditions worth ruling out first.

Good to know

The wording keeps room for a provisional call while a picture is still forming. Clinicians who prefer it to the DSM point at the summary list up front; others report errors in the text.

From the publisher

Provides clinical descriptions, diagnostic guidelines, and codes for all mental and behavioral disorders commonly encountered in clinical psychiatry. The book was developed from chapter V of the Tenth Revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10).

The clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines were finalized after field testing by over 700 clinicians and researchers in 110 institutes in 40 countries, making this book the product of the largest ever research effort designed to improve psychiatric diagnosis. Every effort has been made to define categories whose existence is scientifically justifiable as well as clinically useful.

The classification divides disorders into ten groups according to major common themes or descriptive likeness, a new feature, which makes for increased convenience of use. For each disorder, the book provides a full description of the main clinical features and all other important but less specific associated features.

Diagnostic guidelines indicate the number, balance, and duration of symptoms usually required before a confident diagnosis can be made. Inclusion and exclusion criteria are also provided, together with conditions to be considered in differential diagnosis.

The guidelines are worded so that a degree of flexibility is retained for diagnostic decisions in clinical work, particularly in the situation where provisional diagnosis may have to be made before the clinical picture is entirely clear or information is complete.