V62.22 (291.82) v15.89 (291.89) ve9.9 (272.9) v71.o1 (272.811)
V71.02 (272.810)
Other Personal History of Psychological Trauma (726)
Personal History of Self-Harm (726)
Personal History of Military Deployment (726)
Problem Related to Lifestyle (726)
Problems Related to Access to Medical and Other Health Care (726)
V63.9 (275.3)
V63.8 (275.4)
Unavailability or Inaccessibility of Health Care Facilities (726)
Unavailability or Inaccessibility of Other Helping Agencies (726)
Nonadherence to Medical Treatment (726)
V15.81 (291.19) 278.00 (E669)
V65.2 (276.5)
V40.31 (291.83)
V62.89 (R4133)
Nonadherence to Medical Treatment (726)
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM) is a classification of mental disorders with associated criteria de- signed to facilitate more reliable diagnoses of these disorders. With successive editions over the past 60 years, it has become a standard reference for clinical practice in the mental health field. Since a complete description of the underlying pathological processes is not possible for most mental disorders, it is important to emphasize that the current diagnos- tic criteria are the best available description of how mental disorders are expressed and can be recognized by trained clinicians. DSM is intended to serve as a practical, functional, and ﬂexible guide for organizing information that can aid in the accurate diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. It is a tool for clinicians, an essential educational resource for students and practitioners, and a reference for researchers in the field.
Although this edition of DSM was designed first and foremost to be a useful guide to clinical practice, as an official nomenclature it must be applicable in a wide diversity of contexts. DSM has been used by clinicians and researchers from different orientations (bi- ological, psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, family/systems), all of whom strive for a common language to communicate the essential characteristics of men- tal disorders presented by their patients. The information is of value to all professionals associated with various aspects of mental health care, including psychiatrists, other physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, counselors, forensic and legal special- ists, occupational and rehabilitation therapists, and other health professionals. The criteria are concise and explicit and intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom pre- sentations in a variety of clinical settings—inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consul- tation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care—as well in general community epidemiological studies of mental disorders. DSM-5 is also a tool for collecting and com- rates. Finally, the criteria and corresponding text serve as a textbook for students early in their profession who need a structured way to understand and diagnose mental disorders as well as for seasoned professionals encountering rare disorders for the first time. Fortu- nately, all of these uses are mutually compatible.
These diverse needs and interests were taken into consideration in planning DSM-S.
The classification of disorders is harmonized with the World Health Organization’s Inter- national Classification ofDiseuses (ICD), the official coding system used in the United States, so that the DSM criteria define disorders identified by ICD diagnostic names and code numbers. In DSM-5, both ICD—9-CM and ICD-lO-CM codes (the latter scheduled for adop- tion in October 2014) are attached to the relevant disorders in the classification.