Course Details

Course Title	A Clinician's Guide to DSM-5, 2nd Edition
Date	Varies
Provider	Elite Learning
Phone	1-888-857-6920
Email	office@elitelearning.com
Website	https://www.elitelearning.com/social-work/courses/a-clinicians-guide-to-dsm-5-2nd-edition/
Location	Online
Credit Hours	3
Instructor(s)	Edward A. Selby, PhD
Method of Instruction	Online (Asynchronous/Self-paced)
Approving Agency	APA
Course Syllabus

Course Description

This intermediate-level course provides clinicians with the most essential information about the manual in a single, easy-to-use source. The course describes the history of the DSM and the development process used in creating the diagnostic system's new structure. Newly added and classified disorders, removed or reclassified disorders, and any modified diagnostic criteria for those disorders retained in DSM-5 are detailed. The course addresses the controversies and criticisms that arose with the publication of DSM-5. Clinical vignettes highlight diagnosis criteria and quick reference lists and charts included in the course are an indispensable resource for those clinicians ready to use DSM-5.

Course Objectives

Describe the history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Explain the structural and organizational changes made in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).
Identify psychiatric diagnoses that are newly included in DSM-5.
Identify changes to psychiatric diagnoses that have been made in the transition from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5, including the recategorization, renaming, and modification of criteria.
List psychiatric disorders and their criteria that have been recommended for further study by DSM-5.
Describe the controversies and criticisms that have arisen from the publication of DSM-5, and the alternative diagnostic systems that have been proposed in lieu of DSM-5.