A Proposal for a Dimensional Classification System Based on the Shared Features of the DSM-IV Anxiety and Mood Disorders: Implications for Assessment and Treatment

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 256-271

  Brown, Timothy A ^a   Barlow, David H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

categorical versus dimensional assessment of psychopathology; comorbidity of anxiety and mood disorders; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; diagnostic classification of emotional disorders; temperament and psychopathology of emotional disorders

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; PANIC; PHENOTYPE; PHOBIA; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 70249127556     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016608     Document Type: Article

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