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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 616.89075 EAN: 9781593853310 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1593853319 Label: The Guilford Press Manufacturer: The Guilford Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 316 Publication Date: July 21, 2006 Publisher: The Guilford Press Studio: The Guilford Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This authoritative, user-friendly book offers a complete introduction to the art and science of mental health diagnosis. Meeting a key need for students and novice clinicians, James Morrison, the author of the bestselling DSM-IV Made Easy, systematically takes the reader through every step of the process. He provides clear-cut principles and decision trees for evaluating information from a variety of sources and for constructing a valid working diagnosis that serves as a foundation for treatment. Special features include quick-reference tables, sidebars explaining key concepts, and over 100 case examples that bring the approach to life. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - It does it job!It really does its job, it make the tedious process of diagnoising more real with vignettes and easy to follow decision trees. Rating:  - Diagnosis Made Easier TRUE TO IT'S TITLEThis volume by Morrison is incredibly reader friendly, common sensical, and practical for use by mental health professionals as it pertains to making accurate diagnoses. A very helpful approach with a step-by-step process of developing your diagnosis. Rating: - hate the titlei am a licensed social worker. this text, as well as morrison's other text on the dsm are good and helpful. i just have to say that i hate the titles. i don't find the DSM 'difficult' or complicated to understand nor do i find differential diagnosis a 'difficult' process. i find it a serious and substantial process, one of depth. i do have philosophical, theoretical, and practical disagreements and issues with the dsm. that doesn't mean i don't understand it. i turn to texts to supplement, enhance, ... Read More Rating: - Wonderful Book1. What makes James Morrison's books special to me James Morrison has a wonderful quality: He is precise without losing his warmth. From graduate school (I have an M.A. in Psychology), I know the following dilemma: Nobody wanted to make a diagnosis of a patient (and wanted even less to be diagnosed!), because it felt like "putting people in boxes" or "being judgmental"; people were afraid the diagnostic process would be mechanical and heartless, the more so, the more precise one tried to ... Read More 
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