NEWS: Initial proposed revisions to DSM-V released; comments requested

On Wednesday Tuesday, February 10, 2010 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) unveiled the proposed initial draft recommendations for the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the manual used to diagnose mental disorders. When completed and adopted, the DSM-V would supercede the current version, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR).

The American Psychiatric Association has set up a website with the proposed initial draft recommendations of the revisions developed by the DSM-5 Work Groups. Viewers will be able to submit comments until April 20, 2010. After the April 20th date, the site will still be available for viewing, but comments will not longer be taken.

Further steps before release would be field testing of the proposed revisions and final changes.

The process for developing the DSM-5 began a decade ago, with an initial research planning conference under the joint sponsorship of the APA and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Additional global research planning conferences, under the auspices of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE), the World Health Organization, and three institutes of the National Institutes of Health produced a series of monographs, which helped lay the groundwork for the revisions.

The APA’s DSM-5 Task Force and Work Group members were identified in 2007; they are tasked with reviewing scientific advances and research to develop draft diagnostic criteria in diagnostic categories of psychiatric disorders.

While many changes are planned for the DSM-V, two that were given some attention by the press on Tuesday was the replacement of pediatric bipolar disorder with "Temper Dysregulation Disorder",


and removal of Asperger's Syndrome as a separate diagnosis and placement under the Autism Spectrum Disorder category,



The anticipated release of the DSM-V is May 2013. This release date was delayed from initial projections to allow coordination with the scheduled U.S. implementation on October 1, 2013 of the International Classification of Diseases-10-Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) (World Health Organization/WHO) codes for all Medicare/Medicaid claims reporting. Chapter V of the ICD-10-CM is Mental and behavioral disorders. A related development is that the ICD is also in revision to ICD-11 ; that revised version is expected to be released in 2014 or 2015.

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For further reading

American Psychiatric Association DSM-5 Development

[This article discusses the timeline for the DSM-V and steps towards the final version and coordination witht he ICD-10-CM]
Why is DSM-5 Being Delayed?
Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D.
Psychiatric News January 1, 2010
Volume 45 Number 1 Page 3

International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

Media reports
All google news under keyword "DSM-V"

[This article gives a quick rundown on some proposed revisions]
APA Releases Proposed Draft of the DSM-5
Caroline Cassels
Medscape Medical News
February 10, 2010

Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind
By BENEDICT CAREY
New York Times
Published: February 10, 2010

[In reference to the folding of Asperger's Syndrome into the Autism Spectrum Disorders]
Opinion: Disorder Out of Chaos
By ROY RICHARD GRINKER
New York Times
Published: February 9, 2010

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