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Dow, D. B. What Is The DSM, And Why Do We Need It? (2013, June 12). Retrieved from chrome-extension://mcbpblocgmgfnpjjppndjkmgjaogfceg/fsCaptured.html Accessed 13 August 2019.

Intagliata, C. (2013, May 31). Bad Diagnosis for New Psychiatry "Bible". Retrieved from https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bad-diagnosis-for-new-psychiatry-bible. Accessed 13 August 2013.

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- The DSM is positive because it gives professionals  a standard way to diagnosis mental disorders across the board.
- It can also be negative because if someone who gets a hold of the manual, could go around diagnosing people without the proper knowledge; also dangerous.
- its more like a dictionary, it needs more , the description doesn't line up with the biological testing.(Intagliata, 2013).

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- Etiology (What causes disorders
- Treatment (guidance on how to treat the disorder that is described.

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- prevalence rates
-gender differences
-risk factors
-co-morbid diagnoses

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- DSM-III & DSM-III-R moved away from the unproven concepts theories and increased criteria specificity and reliability remained low, but improved from earlier editions.
-DSM-IV &DSM IV-TR had the most improvement,; improved reliability and validity, was realistic, its prototypic approach allowed flexibility in the diagnosis.
-DSM-V is the most unchanged from the DSM-IV. The biggest change is the removal of the mulitaxial classification system presented in the DSM-III.

-Nearly all DSM conditions are symptoms, except Alzheimer's and narcolepsy (Dow, 2013).

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- originally published by the American Psychiatric Association, in 1952.
- primary tool in the U.S.A. for diagnosis of mental disorders and classification.
- driven by psychoanalytical theory and described about 100 mental conditions.
- referred to as the "Bible of Psychology" (Intagliata,2013).