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The Classification of Anxiety and Fear-Related Disorders in the ICD-11
- Source :
- Depression and Anxiety. 33:1141-1154
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent worldwide and engender substantial economic costs and disability. The World Health Organization is currently developing the Eleventh Revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), which represents the first opportunity to improve the validity, clinical utility, and global applicability of the classification in more than 25 years. This article describes changes in the organization and diagnostic guidelines for anxiety and fear-related disorders proposed by the ICD-11 Working Group on the Classification of Mood and Anxiety Disorders and the rationale and evidence base for the proposals. In ICD-11, anxiety and fear-related disorders that manifest across the lifespan are brought together under a new grouping, and are partly distinguished by their focus of apprehension. The focus of apprehension is the stimulus or situation that triggers the fear or anxiety and may be highly specific as in specific phobia or relate to a broader class of situations as in social anxiety disorder. The guidelines also clarify the relationship between panic disorder and agoraphobia and a qualifier is provided for panic attacks in the context of other disorders. A standardized format emphasizing essential features of anxiety disorders is intended to improve clinical utility. Guidelines will be further refined based on findings from two types of field studies: those using a case-controlled vignette methodology disseminated via the Internet to practitioners worldwide (http://gcp.network) and clinic-based field trials implemented globally at participating field study centers.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Panic disorder
Social anxiety
Classification of mental disorders
Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood
medicine.disease
030227 psychiatry
Specific phobia
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
0302 clinical medicine
Prevalence of mental disorders
medicine
Anxiety
medicine.symptom
Psychiatry
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Agoraphobia
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10914269
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Depression and Anxiety
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........330d20b990722907272fcbe976eb8f7a