Using the WHODAS 2.0 to Assess Functional Disability Associated With DSM-5 Mental Disorders
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DSM-5 and the assessment of functioning: the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0).
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) has dropped the multiaxial diagnostic system and moved to a dimensional system of diagnostic classification. This change means that there is no longer a separate Axis V or specific diagnostic category for assessment of functioning. In addition, the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF), the previously endors...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0002-953X,1535-7228
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14050587