Hey guys, was just reading through the Grivas and Oxford psych books and I'm finding it a bit hard to differentiate between the ICD and DSM significantly.
The main differences I've noted so far are:
-ICD covers a wider range of health problems then the DSM as it classifies both physical and mental illnesses.
-ICD distinguishes between mental and behavioural disorders whilst DSM uses the term 'mental disorders' to cover both types of disorders
-DSM published by the American Psychiatric Association, ICD published by the WHO(doubt we need to know this) lol
-ICD primarily used in Europe-useless info?
-Four different versions of ICD for different purposes. The multiaxial version has only 3 axes which are different to the 5 axes contained in DSM's multiaxial system.
-ICD is less detailed than the DSM.
-Many categories in the DSM may be grouped into one category in the ICD(one of the reasons it is less detailed)
From the textbooks, it doesn't seem like we need to know much about the ICD compared to the DSM but I'm a curious person
So is there anything major I missed out on?