Authors:W. E. Narrow, W. E. Narrow,
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Keywords: agenda, dsm, research, diagnosis, considerations, psychiatric, gender
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0890422958
ISBN-13: 9780890422953

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 profile