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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
Would they really incorporate the dsm 5 within a year of release? Having written textbook chapters I think that seems kind of fast...took us about 6 months to write the text for one chapter....by the time we got a revised version of text back it had been about 6 months and we really didn't want to add new info since it had already been edited then then the collection of everything from the other authors took about a year so the text was about 2 years out of date before even being published.
One option though if you do want a newer textbook is just to rent it which you can do on amazon....using the kindle reader. It's a lot cheaper.
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some textbooks do include the new DSM 5 classifications/diagnostics and information. the DSM 5 was in the works for many years and the authors of these texts books purposely left space available for its inclusion. that way once the DSM 5 was completed and ready for use all that was needed was to copy those pages that were needed in the texts, and paste them to the right blank pages. things are not so complicated now that we have computer programs like microsoft office or other word processing programs, where its easy to edit, change things with just a click of a key command on the computer. what used to take many months to do can now be accomplished in just a few minutes to a few hours depending upon what the editing process is.