Deciphering the diagnostic codes : a guide for school counselors

Deciphering the diagnostic codes : a guide for school counselors /

This tightly focused, reader-friendly guide will make it easier for you to use - and communicate to others - the diagnostic codes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV). Deciphering the Diagnostic Codes is designed to increase your familiarity with the diagnostic co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, W. Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, ©1997.
Series:Practical skills for counselors
Subjects:
Mental illness > Diagnosis.
Child psychopathology.
Adolescent psychopathology.
Educational counseling.
Mental Disorders > diagnosis
Psychopathology > in infancy & childhood.
Psychopathology > in adolescence.
Counseling
Maladies mentales > Diagnostic.
Enfants > Psychopathologie.
Adolescents > Psychopathologie.
Services personnels aux élèves.
Counseling.
counseling.
Table of Contents:
  • Diagnosis : communication and credibility
  • Multiaxial assessment : from the bottom up
  • The V codes : almost a mental disorder
  • The adjustment codes : a disorder for everyone
  • The anxiety codes : a disorder for anyone
  • The depression codes : when sadness becomes a disorder
  • The cognitive codes : problem learning or learning disorder
  • Attention disorder codes : biology and politics
  • Adolescent codes : developmental stages and developmental disasters
  • Diagnostic codes : is this all there is?

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