Critical Issues for Mental Health Management in Vocational Rehabilitation: DSM-5, ICD-10-CM, and Implementing the WHODAS

Abstract

This chapter provides a review of critical issues for mental health management in vocational rehabilitation within the context of the implementation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. We begin with a discussion of the importance of competency in psychiatric diagnoses for vocational rehabilitation professionals working in mental health management. We follow with a review of the release of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menial Disorders (DSM), Fifth Edition, highlighting significant changes from the previous version. Of particular interest lo the ICF, we introduce the inclusion of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule, an instrument closely linked lo the ICF, within the DSM-5 as a replacement for the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) that was in previous versions of the DSM. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)