Question

Case Management book (Fundementals of Case Management Practice, skills for the human services - 5th ed by Nancy Summers).

Chapter 17 describes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The DSM is a collection of diagnoses of mental disorders accompanied by the typical behaviors and symptoms you might see in a particular diagnosis. Given your role as a case manager, it is critical that you understand the process for assigning diagnoses, including what to do when a single diagnosis may not be readily apparent or when there is no diagnosis that seems quite right. Please answer each of the questions that follow, drawing on what you learned in this chapter.

1. What does WHODAS stand for?

2. What does ICD stand for?

3. What does DSM stand for?

4. What does APA stand for?

5. Why is October 1, 2015, an important date?

6. When a diagnosis does not quite fit, what is the procedure?

7. If you turn to the diagnosis and there is no number, what is the DSM asking you to do?

8. Does the DSM take into account gender, culture, genetics, and/or neuroimaging? Explain whether and how this is useful.

9. The diagnosis is written in a particular order. Arrange these in the correct order: specifiers, the number, severity, name of the disorder.

10. If a person has more than one disorder, which one goes first?

Answer 1

1. WHODAS stands for World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule.

It is produced by WHO for the assessment of disability and health in various cultures.

2. ICD stands for the International Classification of Diseases.

It classifies the diseases, injuries and causes of death

3. DSM stands for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

It helps in diagnosing the mental disorders as it contains descriptions and symptoms of different mental disorders. It is widely used in the USA and other places of the world

4.Apa stands for American Psychological Association.

It is a common format of writing a research paper or a documentation in social sciences.