I've been asked to do a presentation with a couple other people from work about updates from DSM-IV to DSM-V. It's for staff education because I work at a mental health team. People do not know about my illness, I was asked to do this because I am the team NP. I'm presenting with a social worker and a psychiatrist. We've split the presentation up into diagnostic areas, and each of us will do part of it. My section is mood and anxiety disorders. I have to cover DSM-V updates, but there is varying levels of knowledge about diagnoses in general on the team, so I also need to give an overview of what these disorders are. The audience is social workers, nurses, rehab staff, support workers, and psychiatrists.
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Anyways, I have to make some power point slides. I'm going to make slides that list the criteria straight out of DSM, and I'll point out changes like removal of the bereavement specifier from depression, but I'm looking for suggestions about things to say about bipolar. There haven't been any changes to DSM-V, except that I think mixed might now be part of BP2, but I'll need to double check that. Aside from listing the criteria, what do you think is important to tell them? I know there will be questions about distinguishing bipolar from borderline for example, so how would you answer that, beyond making slides that list the criteria for each.
I'm open to suggestions, and I have some time to make the slides because I'm presenting mid July.
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