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11 Jun 2012, 1:59 pm
Compiled by the American Psychiatric Association, and widely known as the DSM, the reference guide spells out criteria for making a given diagnosis. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 5:00 am
According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have […] The post Automatic 50% PTSD Rating appeared first on CCK Law. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 5:00 am
According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have […] The post Automatic 50% PTSD Rating appeared first on CCK Law. [read post]
9 Mar 2020, 5:00 am
According to the American Psychiatric Association, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric condition that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist attack, war/combat, rape, or other violent personal assault. [read post]
31 Aug 2022, 10:59 am
” According to the American Psychiatric Association, gender dysphoria describes an uncomfortable conflict between a person’s assigned gender and the gender with which the person identifies. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 1:24 pm
As part of its revision of its influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the American Psychiatric Association is proposing to lower diagnostic thresholds for some conditions and recognize other entirely new (and sometimes controversial) disorders. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 5:13 am
David Foley over at LaborRelated has a terrific post about the ongoing process of revising the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 11:07 am
For example, in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental... [read post]
20 May 2013, 8:52 am
The American Psychiatric Association is about to release the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, commonly abbreviated DSM-V and pronounced “DSM five. [read post]
30 Dec 2011, 4:25 am
My new podcast at Cato discusses the American Psychiatric Association’s ongoing project of redefining and often loosening the criteria for diagnosing mental illness, and some of its legal implications in fields like disability law (earlier). [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 10:00 am
Mark Levy, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and forensic psychiatry expert witness writes: With regard to causation, the forensic expert must always be on guard to not fall into the trap described so artfully more than 200 years ago by a great physician and man of letters, Samuel Johnson: "It is … physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, [who] mistake subsequence for consequence. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 9:51 am
A recent study published in Psychiatric Services, the journal of the American Psychiatric Association, concluded that nursing home patients with serious mental illness were almost 25% less likely to have an advance health care directive than patients with no mental illness. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 7:00 am
Then in its denying the further reconsideration request of County, the board noted migraine headaches are not classified by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a "psychiatric injury. [read post]
12 Jan 2014, 3:27 pm
JJ concluded that pursuant to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Revision (DSM IV) of the American Psychiatric Association, K.A. suffers from Axis I disorder of Pedophelia. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 1:39 pm
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.), known as the DSM-5 for short, is a controversial document that often makes its way into criminal cases. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 10:00 am
Mark Levy, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and ADA expert witness writes: The gold bullion standard of evidence based opinion for forensic psychiatric and psychological experts is the ballistics expert who can say with reasonable "ballistic certainty" that a particular shell was fired from a particular gun…or it wasn't. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 4:38 pm
The American Psychiatric Association has now issued its response to Comstock in this interesting article:The federal appeals court ruling will have a limited impact because many such prisoners will simply be transferred to state control, said forensic psychiatrist Paul Appelbaum, M.D., a member of APA's Council on Psychiatry and Law, in an interview with Psychiatric News. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 6:42 am
Thanks to the Health Sciences Library System, we have online access to DSM-5, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. [read post]
Employers Demanding Employees to Undergo Psychiatric Counseling Violates Federal Discrimination Laws
19 Sep 2012, 1:01 pm
A qualified individual with a disability is an individual with any medical, physiological, or psychiatric condition that substantially limits a major life activity. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 10:11 pm
According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association, 3% - 7% of school-age children suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) -- a disease that often leads to failure in school, difficulty in relationships and employment, and even to alcohol and drug abuse. [read post]
