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Abstract: 

Practitioners working in clinical and juvenile justice settings are now beginning to recognize that the upcoming DSM-5 and ICD-11 will contain changes that will affect their work with the children and adolescents in their care. The standard of practice requires that service providers must properly address diagnostic innovations in assessments such as the DSM and ICD. Therefore, a clinical and juvenile justice training that has focused analysis on these recognized references is expected to provide further information for making diagnostic assessment decisions. This paper specifically examines how training plans designed to improve practitioner skills enhance the use of the DSM-5 and ICD-11. There is a direct relationship between the release of these revised diagnostic guides and a need for an update in the continuing education of qualified practitioners with regard to the appropriate use of these tools with adolescents and children.

Keywords: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; International Classification of Diseases; cultural competence

Affiliations:  1: University of San Diego.