Cultural Sensitivity: ICD-10 Versus DSM-III-R
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
- Vol. 40 (3) , 189-193
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002076409404000304
Abstract
This article is the outcome of a comparison of the ICD-10 (International Classifica tion of Diseases, 10th Revision) and DSM-III-R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Edition, Revised). The study indicates that the ICD-10 has made great progress in widening the international scope of contemporary systems of classifica tion in psychiatry and that the inclusion of certain cultural elements into a classificatory system could enrich its worldwide perspective.Keywords
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