Dimensions vs. categories in psychiatric diagnosis

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 532-533

  Walters, Glenn D ^a  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; AUTISM; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DSM-5; DSM-IV; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 84879851006     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318294832c     Document Type: Note

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