PMID- 24986344
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150331
LR  - 20140702
IS  - 1943-3662 (Electronic)
IS  - 1093-6793 (Linking)
VI  - 42
IP  - 2
DP  - 2014
TI  - DSM-5 and the assessment of functioning: the World Health Organization Disability 
      Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0).
PG  - 173-81
AB  - The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) 
      has dropped the multiaxial diagnostic system and moved to a dimensional system of 
      diagnostic classification. This change means that there is no longer a separate 
      Axis V or specific diagnostic category for assessment of functioning. In 
      addition, the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF), the previously 
      endorsed numerical rating scale used for assessment of functioning and reported 
      on Axis V, has been eliminated. In its place, DSM-5 offers psychiatrists a new 
      tool for assessment of global functioning and impairment, the World Health 
      Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2 (WHODAS 2.0). Any single global 
      assessment of functioning rating scale inevitably has limitations. Nevertheless, 
      the GAF has been widely used in clinical and research settings and has been 
      adopted as meaningful by psychiatric, legal, administrative, and insurance 
      systems and institutions. The changes in DSM-5 in regard to the conceptual and 
      practical assessment of functioning and impairment raise many questions. In this 
      article, I review the implications for forensic psychiatric evaluations of the 
      changes in the recommended assessment of functioning in DSM-5.
CI  - (c) 2014 American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
FAU - Gold, Liza H
AU  - Gold LH
AD  - Dr. Gold is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of 
      Medicine, Washington, DC. lhgoldmd@gmail.com.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
JT  - The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
JID - 9708963
SB  - IM
MH  - *Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
MH  - *Disability Evaluation
MH  - Forensic Psychiatry
MH  - Humans
MH  - Mental Disorders/*classification
MH  - *World Health Organization
EDAT- 2014/07/06 06:00
MHDA- 2015/04/01 06:00
CRDT- 2014/07/03 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/07/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/04/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - 42/2/173 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2014;42(2):173-81.