Diagnosis and Management in Psychiatry: A New Era
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 2405
Special Issue Editor
Interests: child psychiatry; mental illness; psychology of adolescence; developmental psychopathology; child development; psychopathology; psychoeducation; psychological assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Psychiatry as a medical discipline deals primarily with the diagnosis and management of mental disorders. However, the concept of mental disorder and how to define and approach it clinically has been the subject of debate for many decades. Classification of psychiatric disorders is one of the key debates, given the shortcomings of our two main classification systems of DSM and ICD. Dimensional classifications such as RDoC, among others, along with more sophisticated statistical approaches toward classification represent the recent attempts to address some of the challenges in working with older classification systems, while considering developmental trajectories and environmental influences. In terms of treatment and service development, clinical neuroscience, personalized pharmacotherapy, interventional psychiatry technologies (such as rTMS protocols), more targeted evidence-based psychotherapy, community mental health care, digital phenotyping and therapies and task sharing approaches have all contributed to a new era of diagnosis and treatment in psychiatry. In this Special Issue, we invite all relevant investigators to help us shed light on different aspects of the current status and future directions of diagnosis and treatment in psychiatry.
Dr. Javad Alaghband-rad
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- personalized pharmacotherapy
- community mental health care
- evidence-based psychotherapy
- interventional psychiatry
- DSM
- ICD
- RDoC
- developmental psychopathology
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- psychiatric classification
- clinical neuroscience
