DSM-5-TR Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis

by James Morrison MD

Overview

Fully updated for the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), this trusted guide presents the breadth of DSM diagnoses in an accessible, engaging, and clinically useful format. Master diagnostician James Morrison demystifies the dense DSM-5-TR criteria with more than 130 detailed case vignettes that illustrate typical patient presentations. Succinct descriptions of each disorder, along with many tips, sidebars, tables, and caveats, capture the intricacies of psychiatric symptoms and impairments to make accurate diagnosis cleaner and simpler. For DSM-5-TR, Morrison has incorporated the new diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder, updates to over 70 criteria sets, new and revised ICD-10-CM codes, and vignettes for additional subtypes.

See also Morrison's Diagnosis Made Easier, Third Edition, which offers principles and decision trees for integrating diagnostic information from multiple sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462551347
Publisher:	Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	04/05/2023
Pages:	674
Sales rank:	100,336
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

James Morrison, MD, is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. His long career includes extensive experience in both the private and public sectors. With his acclaimed practical books—including DSM-5-TR Made Easy; Diagnosis Made Easier, Third Edition; The First Interview, Fourth Edition; and others—Dr. Morrison has guided hundreds of thousands of mental health professionals and students through the complexities of clinical evaluation and diagnosis.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Neurodevelopmental Disorders
2. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
3. Mood Disorders
4. Anxiety Disorders
5. Obsessive–Compulsive and Related Disorders
6. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
7. Dissociative Disorders
8. Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
9. Feeding and Eating Disorders
10. Elimination Disorders
11. Sleep–Wake Disorders
12. Sexual Dysfunctions
13. Gender Dysphoria
14. Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
15. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
16. Cognitive Disorders
17. Personality Disorders
18. Paraphilic Disorders
19. Other Factors That May Need Clinical Attention
20. Patients and Diagnoses
Appendix: Essential Tables
Index

Editorial Reviews

"DSM-5-TR Made Easy is a master class in modern psychopathology. Morrison's meticulously detailed reviews of each major mental disorder provide the reader with an informative and accessible guide for understanding the DSM. Through relevant case examples, Morrison’s text not only enhances our understanding of symptoms, overlapping syndromes, and common comorbid conditions, but also elevates our approach to diagnostic formulations and conceptualizations. This exceptional book is an authoritative resource for clinicians and students at all levels and an ideal text for teaching the next generation of mental health professionals."—David H. Klemanski, PsyD, MPH, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University

"This book supports mental health professionals across their careers, from medical students and psychology interns who are just learning the diagnostic criteria to seasoned psychiatrists who need the newest DSM updates in our constantly evolving field. The book’s structure allows for its use as a quick-reference guide, whether to check criteria for a rare diagnosis or to review a common disorder and the varied ways it can present. Regardless of why you are using DSM-5-TR Made Easy, Morrison makes the process enjoyable (and validating!) through his self-aware style, vivid case presentations, and awareness that diagnoses don’t always fit into precise boxes."—Meredith Gansner, MD, attending psychiatrist, Boston Children's Hospital

"If DSM-5-TR is the encyclopedia, this book is the manual. Morrison shows you real diagnosing—the thinking processes, integration of data, case formulation for treatment, and so on—not just assigning labels and ICD-10-CM codes. Reading this book is like sitting with a wise and experienced clinician showing you how to weigh and balance the evidence. Even the introductory explanations of how to use the book are excellent guides for teachers and students and will greatly enhance learning. Over 130 superbly constructed cases show exactly how Morrison applies the DSM-5-TR rules and logic. The cases bring the criteria sets and checklists of the DSM to life. This book is suitable as a text in introduction-to-the-profession courses in clinical fields. Anyone reading it will feel like (and will become) a smarter clinician."—Edward L. Zuckerman, PhD, author of Clinician's Thesaurus

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Matthew Koster, DO, MBA (Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services)
Description: This book presents DSM diagnoses in a reader-friendly manner that clinicians can use more easily. The book reflects the most recent revision to the DSM which includes the new diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder. The book is well-organized with helpful tables, essential features, and case examples to provide additional context to information presented in the DSM.
Purpose: This book's purpose is to make DSM mental health diagnosis more accessible in a clinically useful format. This text serves as a useful companion to the DSM as it presents technical material in a more engaging way by using case examples and conversational style. This makes the information contained in the DSM more accessible to a wider audience to aid in diagnostic formulation.
Audience: The book targets mental health professionals. As all mental health professionals benefit from being familiar with the DSM, this text is a helpful contribution to the field. Those that would benefit most from this text are those less familiar with the DSM, such as learners, or those early in their career. The book does a wonderful job of explaining the clinical criteria and walking the reader through the reasoning behind the diagnosis. Those who are more familiar with the intricacies of the DSM may still find this book a helpful review filled with examples.
Features: This book follows the organizational system of the DSM. For each chapter there is a helpful summary providing an overview of the disorders found in the section. Each of the major disorders include information such as essential features and a clinical vignette that helps put the diagnostic criteria into context. The book helps readers develop a "prototype" of each disorder that they can readily use to identify key features of disorders and what distinguishes it from other disorders. The sections are organized, readable, and written in a way that can be used as a reference for specific disorders if needed. The book provides a helpful section at the end which includes further case vignettes and walks readers through diagnostic decision making.
Assessment: As with the previous versions of this book, the conversational style allows readers to better digest and put into context diagnostic features of disorders found in the DSM for use in a clinical context. Apart from reviewing clinical criteria, the book walks readers through the process of diagnostic decision making which can be overwhelming, especially for early learners who are becoming familiar with the DSM. Used as a companion to the DSM-5-TR, this text provides a more reader-friendly presentation of information, especially for those less familiar with the DSM.

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