Psychologists' perspectives on the diagnostic classification of mental disorders: Results from the WHO-IUPsyS Global Survey

International Journal of Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 177-193

  Evans, Spencer C ^a   Reed, Geoffrey M ^b   Roberts, Michael C ^a   Esparza, Patricia ^c   Watts, Ann D ^d,e   Correia, João Mendonça ^b,f   Ritchie, Pierre ^d,g   Maj, Mario ^h,i   Saxena, Shekhar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c WEBSTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d International Union of Psychological Science ^*  (Switzerland)

^e Entabeni Hospital   (South Africa)

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^h International College of Person Centered Medicine   (Canada)

ⁱ SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

clinical utility; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); diagnostic classification system; International Classification of Diseases (ICD); psychologists

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84880627081     PISSN: 00207594     EISSN: 1464066X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207594.2013.804189     Document Type: Article

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