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Essentials of the World Psychiatric Association's international guidelines for diagnostic assessment (IGDA)
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- The British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 182 Supp. 45, 2003
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 29p.,bibliogs.
This monograph presents the 100 IGDA guidelines, along with explanatory diagrams and tables, and recommended reading lists. This material is organised into ten parts, covering conceptual bases, interviewing and information sources, symptom and supplementary assessments, comprehensive diagnostic formulation, treatment planning and chart organisation. A final part sets out an illustrative clinical case. These guidelines are offered as recommendations for both in-patient and out-patient care, and for both child and adult psychiatry. The manner of their application should be informed by local realities and needs.