V62.89 (265.8) Other Problem Related to Psychosocial Circumstances
V62.9 (265.9) Unspecified Problem Related to Unspecified Psychosocial Circum- 726 Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention
Other Circumstances of Personal History
V15.49 (291.49) Other Personal History of Psychological Trauma
V15.59 (291.5) Personal History of Self-Harm
V62.22 (291.82) Personal History of Military Deployment
V15.89 (291.89) Other Personal Risk Factors
V69.9 (272.9) Problem Related to Lifestyle
This category should be used when a lifestyle problem is a specific focus of treatment or di- rectly affects the course, prognosis, or treatment of a mental or other medical disorder. Ex- amples of lifestyle problems include lack of physical exercise, inappropriate diet, high-risk sexual behavior, and poor sleep hygiene. A problem that is attributable to a symptom of a mental disorder should not be coded unless that problem is a specific focus of treatment or directly affects the course, prognosis, or treatment of the individual. In such cases, both the mental disorder and the lifestyle problem should be coded.
V71.01 (272.811) Adult Antisocial Behavior
This category can be used when the focus of clinical attention is adult antisocial behavior that is not due to a mental disorder (e.g., conduct disorder, antisocial personality disor- der). Examples include the behavior of some professional thieves, racketeers, or dealers in illegal substances.
V71.02 (272.810) Child or Adolescent Antisocial Behavior
This category can be used when the focus of clinical attention is antisocial behavior in a child or adolescent that is not due to a mental disorder (e.g., intermittent explosive disor- der, conduct disorder). Examples include isolated antisocial acts by children or adoles- cents (not a pattern of antisocial behavior).
Problems Related to Access to Medical
V63.9 (275.3) Unavailability or Inaccessibility of Health Care Facilities
V63.8 (275.4) Unavailability or Inaccessibility of Other Helping Agencies
Nonadherence to Medical Treatment
V15.81 (291.19) Nonadherence to Medical Treatment
This category can be used when the focus of clinical attention is nonadherence to an im- portant aspect of treatment for a mental disorder or another medical condition. Reasons for such nonadherence may include discomfort resulting from treatment (e.g., medication side effects), expense of treatment, personal value judgments or religious or cultural be- liefs about the proposed treatment, age-related debility, and the presence of a mental dis- order (e.g., schizophrenia, personality disorder). This category should be used only when the problem is sufficiently severe to warrant independent clinical attention and does not meet diagnostic criteria for psychological factors affecting other medical conditions.
278.00 (E66.9) Overweight or Obesity
This category may be used when overweight or obesity is a focus of clinical attention.
V65.2 (276.5) Malingering
The essential feature of malingering is the intentional production of false or grossly exag- gerated physical or psychological symptoms, motivated by external incentives such as avoiding military duty, avoiding work, obtaining financial compensation, evading crimi- nal prosecution, or obtaining drugs. Under some circumstances, malingering may repre-