Presentation Information
[SY-14-02]The DSM Steering Committee - What, Why and How it Does What it Does
*Kimberly A Yonkers (UMass Memorial Health and UMass Chan Medical School(United States of America))
Keywords:
DSM,Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,Psychiatric Diagnosis
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) is an evolving document that seeks to classify mental disorders and their correlates. Since development of DSM-5, APA established a steering committee that would assess potential modifications to the manual that are driven by changes in science and community needs such as parallelism with the International Classification of Diseases. The application for initiating changes is rigorous as are the vetting procedures. This presentation will provide background on this process, the changes that were made and will comment on the differences between the DSM Steering Committee and the new Committee looking forward to the next version of DSM.