'Psychosis Risk Syndrome was rightly rejected as an official category in DSM-5 because it would subject kids to misdiagnosis, stigma, and exposure to unnecessary and harmful antipsychotic meds.

Each participant was assigned to a diagnostic group of 1) non–APS if they did not meet psychotic or DSM-5 criteria for APS, 2) APS if they met DSM-5 criteria for APS, or 3) early-onset psychosis ...

Key points Schizophrenia, as a diagnosis, hasn't evolved much over the past century. Categorical terms like "schizophrenia", "schizoaffective disorder", and "brief psychosis" are outdated.

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), schizophrenia is not categorized into different types. The previous edition (the DSM-4), however, organized ...

Mental health professionals also use the DSM-5-TR to diagnose schizophrenia. To do so, a person must have two or more symptoms for a significant portion of 1 month’s time.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) contains the official diag' nostic criteria for recognized mental illnesses. Some have asserted that DSM revisions have caused the ...