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Old Jul 07, 2014, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by amandalouise View Post
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.
Considering I just revised/updated a desk reference chapter like 2 years ago I was using word and endnote but the amount of new material I had to interpret and incorporate over say 5 years was huge...but then I do science so maybe things just change faster for us. There is no way I could have copied or pasted anything without violating copyright. I think we needed publisher permission for anything more than a couple of sentences even if it was from our own published work.
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