DSM-5-TR Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis – James Morrison (Hardcover)

DSM-5-TR Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis by James Morrison is the hardcover Guilford Press companion that explains every DSM-5-TR diagnosis in plain language, with more than 130 case vignettes showing what each disorder looks like in a real patient.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) gives you criteria. Morrison gives you the clinical judgment to apply them. For each disorder he provides a short description, the essential features in everyday wording, a vignette, and a discussion of how he would reach the diagnosis, along with tips, sidebars, tables and the caveats that trip up new clinicians. This edition is fully updated for the Text Revision.

What's included

• DSM-5-TR Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, complete text
• Hardcover binding
• Publisher: Guilford Press
• ISBN-13: 9781462551347
• More than 130 case vignettes illustrating typical presentations
• Coverage of prolonged grief disorder and the TR updates to over 70 criteria sets
• New and revised ICD-10-CM codes

Who it's for

Graduate students in clinical psychology, counseling, social work and marriage and family therapy taking a psychopathology or diagnosis course. Psychiatry residents and PMHNP students learning to formulate diagnoses. Practicing clinicians who want a readable reference beside the manual, and supervisors teaching diagnostic reasoning.

Why this edition

Earlier versions of Made Easy tracked DSM-IV and DSM-5. This edition is aligned with the 2022 DSM-5-TR, so the criteria, codes and new diagnoses match the manual clinicians are currently required to use. Morrison's approach has not changed: the vignettes do the teaching, and the prose treats diagnosis as a skill rather than a checklist.

Frequently asked questions

Do I still need the DSM-5-TR if I have Made Easy?

For clinical and billing purposes, yes. Made Easy explains and illustrates the diagnoses but is not a substitute for the official manual's full criteria sets.

Is this updated for DSM-5-TR or only DSM-5?

It is updated for the DSM-5-TR, including prolonged grief disorder, the revised criteria sets and current ICD-10-CM codes.

Is this book useful for the NCE or licensing exams?

Many counseling and social work candidates use it to learn diagnoses conceptually before drilling criteria for the NCE, NCMHCE or ASWB exams.

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