[dualdx] DSM-V Assessment Measures

[Michael W Bennett]

This link lists a number of assessment measures and they
appear to be free
for use.

http://www.psychiatry.org/practice/dsm/dsm5/online-assessment-measures#Disorder

For further clinical evaluation and research, the APA is
offering a number of "emerging measures" in Section III of
DSM-5. These patient assessment measures were developed to
be administered at the initial
patient interview and to monitor treatment progress, thus
serving to advance the use of initial symptomatic status
and patient reported outcome (PRO) information, as well as
the use of "anchored" severity assessment instruments.

Instructions, scoring information, and interpretation
guidelines are included. Clinicians and researchers may
provide APA with feedback on the instruments' usefulness
in characterizing patient status and improving patient
care.

Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measures
Level 2 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measures
Disorder-Specific Severity Measures
Disability Measures
Personality Inventories
Early Development and Home Background
Cultural Formulation Interviews

These measures should be used to enhance clinical
decision-making and not as the sole basis for making a
clinical diagnosis. Further information on these measures
can be found in DSM-5. The measures can be
broadly classified into four types:

. Cross-cutting symptom measures may aid in a
comprehensive mental status assessment by drawing
attention to symptoms that are important across diagnoses.
They are intended to help identify additional areas of
inquiry that may guide treatment and prognosis. The
cross-cutting measures have two levels: Level 1 questions
are a brief survey of 13 domains for adult patients and 12
domains for child and adolescent patients, and Level 2
questions provide a more in-depth assessment of certain
domains.

. Severity measures are disorder-specific, corresponding
closely to criteria that constitute the disorder
definition. They may be administered to individuals who
have received a diagnosis or who have a
clinically significant syndrome that falls short of
meeting full criteria. Some of the assessments are
self-completed, whereas others require a clinician to
complete.

. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment
Schedule, Version 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) assesses a patient's
ability to perform activities in six areas: understanding
and communicating; getting around;
self-care; getting along with people; life activities
(e.g., household, work/school); and participation in
society. The scale is self- or informant-administered and
corresponds to concepts contained in the WHO International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.

. The Personality Inventories for DSM-5 measure
maladaptive personality traits in five domains: negative
affect, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and
psychoticism. For adults and children ages 11 and older,
there are brief forms with 25 items and full versions with
220 items. A full version for informants is also
available.


Michael W. Bennett MBA CAP CPP ICADC CCCJS CCFC
mikeWb...@gmail.com

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