Age and Gender Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Research Agenda for DSM-V - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890422958 ISBN 13: 9780890422953

Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research, this book serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these areas.

About this title

About the Author

William E. Narrow, M.D., M.P.H., is Deputy Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education and the Division of Research of the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia.

Michael B. First, M.D., is Research Psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York, New York.

Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H., is Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education and Director of the Division of Research at the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia.

Paul J. Sirovatka, M.S., is Associate Director for Research Policy Analysis, Division of Research/American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, Arlington, Virginia.

From the Back Cover

Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research to fill these gaps, Age and Gender Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force and its disorder-specific workgroups, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these areas.

Here, 47 experts present findings in three previously neglected areas of psychiatric research: significant gender differences in prevalence, symptom profiles, and risk factors for mental disorders, including neurodevelopmental, neurophysiological, and environmental factors that cut across diagnostic categories; mental disorders in infancy and early childhood, including psychopathology, PTSD, reactive attachment disorder, autism, and mood, anxiety, sleep, feeding, and behavior disorders; and mental disorders in the elderly (e.g., dementia and depression) once considered normal consequences of aging, but today understood as mental disorders and thus worthy of further investigation.

Written for clinicians and researchers alike, this thought-provoking compendium contributes critical information that helps enhance our understanding of the causes of mental disorders, develop effective preventive and treatment interventions, and inform future editions of DSM and the ICD.

From the Inside Flap

Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research to fill these gaps, Age and Gender Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force and its disorder-specific workgroups, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these areas.

Here, 47 experts present findings in three previously neglected areas of psychiatric research: significant gender differences in prevalence, symptom profiles, and risk factors for mental disorders, including neurodevelopmental, neurophysiological, and environmental factors that cut across diagnostic categories; mental disorders in infancy and early childhood, including psychopathology, PTSD, reactive attachment disorder, autism, and mood, anxiety, sleep, feeding, and behavior disorders; and mental disorders in the elderly (e.g., dementia and depression) once considered normal consequences of aging, but today understood as mental disorders and thus worthy of further investigation.

Written for clinicians and researchers alike, this thought-provoking compendium contributes critical information that helps enhance our understanding of the causes of mental disorders, develop effective preventive and treatment interventions, and inform future editions of DSM and the ICD.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890422958
• ISBN 13: 9780890422953
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 382
• Editor: Narrow Dr William E, First Michael B, Sirovatka Paul J