Publisher's Synopsis
This is a practical diagnostic system enabling mental health professionals to develop preliminary diagnoses of patients during an initial brief interview. The checklists provide a virtual 1-2-3 flowchart which helps the clinician consider many possibilities and arrive at a well-supported classification decision.;The boxed set of materials includes the Symptom Glossary, which provides succinct definitions of the various symptoms which should be evaluated when using the ICD-10 symptom checklist. This system is based on the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), a reference system which has been steadily developed since the 1980s.
