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An update on the DSM-5 - Katie Newns & Hugh Koch

02/04/12. Since our article in May 2010 (Newns, Thorne & Koch, 2010) there has been some fierce debate around the proposed DSM-5. The British Psychological Society (BPS) have submitted a concerned response, and the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Counselling Association, and a group of professionals from Barcelona have all drawn up petitions to encourage the APS to rethink the new DSM.

There are some generally welcome changes in the DSM-5, including a formal process to assess the risk of suicide, the inclusion of self-injury, a checklist to assess panic attacks, and the inclusion of a diagnosis for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in pre-school children. There has also been a lot of work put into clarifying some of the current categories – within Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, for example, it is made clear that “flashbacks” are...

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