As a social worker employed in a mental health center, Cecilia is most likely to consult the DSM-IV-TR, a tool for assessing behavioral disorders.
DSM-IV-TR provides diagnostic criterion sets to help guide a clinician toward a correct diagnosis and an additional section devoted to differential diagnosis when persons meet diagnostic criteria for more than one disorder.
The intention of this information is to help the clinician determine which particular mental disorder is present, the identification of which would hopefully indicate the presence of a specific pathology and suggest a specific treatment.
It is evident, however, that DSM-IV-TR routinely fails in this goal, despite the best efforts of the leading clinicians and researchers who have authored the manual.
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