Dysthymia Disorders

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ABSTRACT

The diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DMS) was the American publication that has been issued in 2000. It has the details of the categorization of mental disorders. There is a list of mental disorders through which different people are going through. Dysthymia disorders are also a kind of mental disorders. There are symptoms and off course, scientists have concluded their treatments as well.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTii

Introduction1

Discussions1

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders1

DSM-IV-TR: The Current Manual2

Sections of Publication2

First Section2

Second Section2

Third section2

Forth Section2

Part Axis System3

Axis I: Clinical Syndromes3

Axis II: Developmental Disorders and Personality Disorders3

Axis III: Physical Conditions3

Axis IV: Severity of Psychosocial Stressors3

Axis V: Highest Level of Functioning4

Mental Disorders4

Symptoms of Mental Disorders5

Dysthymia Disorder5

Treatment Plans6

The Best Treatment Plan6

Combination of Therapy and Medication6

Conclusions7

References8

Dysthymia Disorders

Introduction

The diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DMS) has been revised in July 2000. It is a publication by the American institute that has given the details of mental disorders. There have been some editions issued in the market. DMS-IV-TR is the most current and revised version of DMS-IV. The categories of different mental disorders, their symptoms and treatment, statistics in terms of gender, age at onset, and prediction as well as some research concerning the most advantageous treatment advances have been elaborated in details. The research will majorly highlight Dysthymia Disorder that has been mostly found in people. (www.allpsych.com)

Discussions

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

The diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders (DMS) was a publication that was released by American Psychiatric Association. It has given the common language and standard criteria for the categorization of mental disorders found in both children and adults. (www.allpsych.com)

The publication has been widely used by clinicians, investigators, psychiatric drug instruction agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers in United States and the entire world as well. There are some editions that have been issued. The new edition is out in the market as DSM-IV-TR (fourth edition, text revision).

DSM-IV-TR: The Current Manual

DMS-IV has been issued in 1994. Though there have been some changes that have been done to it and now the text revision of DMS-IV-TR has been re-issued in July 2000. There have been descriptive changes in the publication. The errors that have been encountered in DMS-IV are corrected in DMS-TR-IV. It has also updated some of the diagnostic codes according to the levels of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition, and Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) coding system adopted by the U.S. government. (www.psych.org)

Sections of Publication

The publication is a huge compilation of information. Therefore, there are five sections in it, which explain the information in details for easier references.

First Section

There are instructions in the first section for using the instruments effectively that are contained in the manual.

Second Section

It contains the appendices that are broadly used throughout the DMS. There is a detailed classification system list that explains the official codes for each diagnosis.

Third section

Following the classification is the multiaxial system detailed above.

Forth Section

It has the ...