The psychosis continuum and categorical versus dimensional diagnostic approaches

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-184

  Esterberg, Michelle L ^b   Compton, Michael T ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HALLUCINATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARANOIA; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SELF REPORT;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER;

EID: 65749112161     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-009-0028-7     Document Type: Review

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