Question

QUESTION 2 Perhaps the biggest change that has been seen with the release of DSM-5 is a. the inclusion of a list of FDA-approved psychotropic medications. b. the addition of treatment recommendations for the most commonly diagnosed illnesses. c. the removal of the multiaxial diagnostic system. d. augmentation of the personality disorders category that increases the number of diagnoses from 10 to 15.

Answer 1

Answer: the correct answer c. the removal of the multiaxial diagnostic system.

Explanation:

Multiaxial assessment is a system or method of evaluation, grounded in the biopsychosocial model of evaluation that takes into account multiple factors in mental health diagnoses, for example, multiaxial diagnosis is characterized by five axes in the current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.