Increasing Clinical Utility by Aligning the DSM and ICD With Clinicians' Conceptualizations

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 474-481

  Flanagan, Elizabeth H ^a   Blashfield, Roger K ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Clinical utility; Clinicians; DSM; ICD

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650979273     PISSN: 07357028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021603     Document Type: Article

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