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"Continuity and Changes Mark New Text"
"DSM-5 Provides New Take on Developmental Disorders"
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In an interview with Psychiatric News, DSM-5 Task Force Chair David Kupfer, M.D., explained that those overarching conceptual ideas include incorporation of a developmental approach to psychiatric disorders, recognition of the influence of culture and gender on how psychiatric illness presents in individual patients, a move toward the use of dimensional measures to rate severity and disaggregate symptoms that tend to occur across multiple disorders, harmonization of the text with ICD, and integration of genetic and neurobiological findings by grouping clusters of disorders that share genetic or neurobiological substrates.
With regard to the chapter on neurodevelopmental disorders, a major change to the description and organization of criteria for autism and related disorders tops the major revisions clinicians can expect to see. The chapter also includes the addition of a new “social communication disorder,” reorganization of criteria for learning disorders, and changes to the criteria for intellectual disability (known in DSM-IV as mental retardation).