Changes to content on DSM-5 Development site (1)
June 29, 2012
Changes to content on DSM-5 Development site (1)
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Content embargo
According to American Psychiatric Association’s recently published, highly restrictive DSM-5 Permissions Policy – following closure of the third and final public review, the content of DSM-5 will be under strict embargo until the manual is published.
DSM-5 is expected to be finalized by December 31 for publication in May 2013.
APA closed its third stakeholder review of draft proposals for DSM-5 categories and criteria on June 15 and issued a Press Release on June 26 – write-up from Deborah Brauser for Medscape Medical News, below.
Between closure of the final review and Wednesday, June 27, the DSM-5 Development site stated that although comments on proposals could no longer be submitted through the website the site would remain viewable with the draft proposals until DSM-5’s publication.
That line of text was deleted from the DSM-5 Development site home page yesterday, Thursday, June 28.
It remains unconfirmed whether it is now APA’s intention to remove the draft as it stood at the third review from the DSM-5 Development site at some point between now and the slated publication date.
Categories and criteria text frozen during final revisions
According to DSM-5 Development home page text, revisions to categories and criteria will continue to be made between now and the end of 2012 in response to stakeholder feedback; continued analysis of DSM-5 Field Trial results; scrutiny by the DSM-5 Scientific Review Committee which will review scientific validating evidence for revisions; an extensive peer review process; review by an Assembly DSM-5 committee and an overall final review by the DSM-5 Task Force.
Disorder categories and criteria texts as they currently stand on the website are now frozen and the site content will not be updated to reflect any further revisions and edits made between June 15 and submission of final texts, later this year, for approval by APA Board of Trustees.
None of the manual’s extensive textual content that will accompany the new categories has been out on public review.
The remainder of the development process is set out on the Home Page under “Next Steps” and in the APA Board Materials Packet – December 10-11, 2011. This document sets out the DSM-5 Development program from December 2011 until May 2013:
Open here: Item 11.A – DSM Task Force Report
From Medscape Medical News > Psychiatry
Last DSM-5 Public Review Period Ends With 2000 Comments
Deborah Brauser | June 26, 2012
June 26, 2012 — The latest and final public comment period for the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) ended on June 15 — but not before logging 2298 responses from around the world, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) reports.
This was the third public comment period that has been opened for online feedback regarding the manual’s proposed criteria changes. To date, there have been a total of 15,000 public comments posted…
Ed: Free registration required for access to most parts of Medscape site.
Comment on closure of third and final draft review from 1 Boring Old Man
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Related material
1] APA News Release June 26, 2012
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