Explain the role of the DSM in helping clinicians diagnose mental disorders.

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Explain the role of the DSM in helping clinicians diagnose mental disorders.

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Psychology with DSM-5

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Authors: Wade, Tavris, Gary

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-   The DSM provides diagnostic categories that include many different mental disorders and general problems in living.
-   The goal of the DSM is to improve the ability of researchers and clinicians to agree on the problems people have.
-   Most psychiatric and clinical psychology textbooks base their discussions on the DSM.

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I got perfect on my review, thank you for leading in the right direction.

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Next time please provide information about the textbook and possibly so that I could narrow it down. I literally had to look everywhere to get this Face with Stuck-out Tongue

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