Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders

Foreword. Introduction: public health and the classification of mental disorders. Preface: WHO perspectives on stakeholder involvement in revision of the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders. Service user and carer stakeholder perspectives on the public health aspects of diagnosis and classification of mental illnesses. Prevention of mental disorders: implications for revision of psychiatric diagnosis and classification. Capturing complexity: the case for a new classification system for mental disorders in primary care. Use of diagnosis in forensic psychiatry. Economic consequences of revising the diagnostic nomenclature for mental disorders. Education and training. Statistics and information systems. Translating psychiatric diagnosis and classification into public health usage. Formulation of functioning, disability, and contextual factors in the diagnosis of mental disorders in DSM and ICD. Index.