Better Diagnostic Categories Desired

June 27, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Better Diagnostic Categories Desired

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) has announced that the DSM-5 diagnostic manual project will not define the focus of their work. With only weeks before the launch, the NIMH said, it will be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”. Those familiar with this project find this move somewhat surprising. The American Psychiatric Association may not agree, as they have been quoted to say this project was the “future of psychiatric diagnosis.”

This interesting news was found on Mind Hacks in their article, “National Institute of Mental Health abandoning the DSM.”

As a result, the NIMH will now be preferentially funding research that does not stick to DSM categories, but rather, those that look across current categories.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.