Summary of the qualitative criticisms made during the ICD-10 field trial and remarks on the German translation of ICD-10.
The 1987 draft of ICD-10 presents many new aspects of the psychiatric diagnostic evaluation. Some were readily accepted by the participants of the field study, including: the purely descriptive approach with the abautonment of many theoretical concepts; the more operationalized descriptions of the diagnoses; similarity in structure and terms to DSM-III-R. Others proved controversial: extension of the term dementia to include even mild and moderately severe organic psychosyndromes; inclusion of all forms of depression in one chapter, and their subdivisioning only by severity; different time criteria for the diagnosis of schizophrenia in DSM-III-R (6 months) and ICD-10 (1 month). Considerable criticism was levelled at the overly long and often tediously formulated text, and the lack of didactic organisation. A number of examples of translation difficulties are given, and the differences between a too literal and a technically correct equivalent translation disu-used.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001519:Behavior; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D007802:Language; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000145:classification* / Q000523:psychology; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012107:Research Design; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology