DSM-5-TR Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781462551347 ISBN-10: 1462551343 Copyright: 2023 Edition: 1st Author: Morrison, James Doody's Expert Review    Score: 94 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Matthew Koster,  DO, MBA  (Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services) Description This book presents DSM diagnoses in a reader-friendly manner that clinicians can use more easily. The book reflects the most recent revision to the DSM which includes the new diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder. The book is well-organized with helpful tables, essential features, and case examples to provide additional context to information presented in the DSM. Purpose This book's purpose is to make DSM mental health diagnosis more accessible in a clinically useful format. This text serves as a useful companion to the DSM as it presents technical material in a more engaging way by using case examples and conversational style. This makes the information contained in the DSM more accessible to a wider audience to aid in diagnostic formulation. Audience The book targets mental health professionals. As all mental health professionals benefit from being familiar with the DSM, this text is a helpful contribution to the field. Those that would benefit most from this text are those less familiar with the DSM, such as learners, or those early in their career. The book does a wonderful job of explaining the clinical criteria and walking the reader through the reasoning behind the diagnosis. Those who are more familiar with the intricacies of the DSM may still find this book a helpful review filled with examples. Features This book follows the organizational system of the DSM. For each chapter there is a helpful summary providing an overview of the disorders found in the section. Each of the major disorders include information such as essential features and a clinical vignette that helps put the diagnostic criteria into context. The book helps readers develop a "prototype" of each disorder that they can readily use to identify key features of disorders and what distinguishes it from other disorders. The sections are organized, readable, and written in a way that can be used as a reference for specific disorders if needed. The book provides a helpful section at the end which includes further case vignettes and walks readers through diagnostic decision making. Assessment As with the previous versions of this book, the conversational style allows readers to better digest and put into context diagnostic features of disorders found in the DSM for use in a clinical context. Apart from reviewing clinical criteria, the book walks readers through the process of diagnostic decision making which can be overwhelming, especially for early learners who are becoming familiar with the DSM. Used as a companion to the DSM-5-TR, this text provides a more reader-friendly presentation of information, especially for those less familiar with the DSM. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 4 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? N/A 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Are there sufficient references? N/A 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. N/A 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. N/A 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 8 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 10 ©2025 Doody Enterprises, Inc.