A page may soon turn on how mental health professionals diagnose certain disorders.

Last week, the APA responded to that criticism by publishing a series of articles in The American Journal of Psychiatr y, ...

Researchers with Texas A&M’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences are working to create a genetic map that could explain the origins and causes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prolonged grief disorder will be included in the DSM-5-TR set to be released in March 2022. The APA said in a ...

In the context of multiple problems with the DSM-I and DSM-II, including lack of clear definitions and poor inter-rater reliability, the DSM-III instituted observable, descriptive, and atheoretical ...

How a person will be diagnosed with mental illness could look significantly different in the near future. The American ...

Anxiety disorders constitute the largest group of mental disorders in most western societies and are a leading cause of disability. The essential features of anxiety disorders are excessive and ...

Over the past four decades, educators, clinicians, and researchers have become increasingly aware that there are children who have no problem with purely verbal activities, and may even be verbally ...

Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame Miri Forbes receives funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. David Watson has received funding from the National ...

Social pragmatic communication disorder (SPCD) refers to marked challenges with both nonverbal and verbal communication skills used in social settings. Social-communication difficulties may be ...

Lack of internal motivation to follow social rules, lack of empathy, and manipulative, deceitful, or hostile behavior toward others are just a few of the characteristics mental health professionals ...