Mood Disorder Assessment 2022

Running head: MOOD DISORDER
Mood Disorder
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MOOD DISORDER1
Change process of mood disorder classification
Diagnosis of mood disorders continues to pose a threat to the modern world. Mood
disorders have been in existence since a long time and have been acknowledged clinically since
orthodox times. Hippocrates in 400 BC and Aretaeus in 2nd century AD described the mood
disorders. Mood disorders are prevalent as it is the primary concern of to more than 300 million
people across the world as mood disorders are major depressive disorder. It is a disorder that
accounts for around 8.2% of the global problem (Surís, Holliday & North, 2016). Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) defines the modern diagnostic requirements of mood
disorder and is the primary diagnostic model used in psychiatric research. DSM-5 which was
established in May 2013 signifies the first publication after the DSM-4 which was published in
1994. Amendments in the DSM were mostly well-versed by the progress in neuroscience,
scientific, and public health requirements, and recognized issues with the classification model
and standards put forth in the DSM-4 (Surís, Holliday & North, 2016).
In the new approach of DSM-5 most of the things are mostly unchanged with a few
significant exclusions: an innovative evaluation apparatus for the mental conditions based on
dimension measurement, a fresh structure of specifiers for the mood disorders, the introduction
of few more modern-day depressive issues, and acknowledgment of catatonia as a distinct
medical unit (Parker, 2014). The DSM-5 approach was formulated with an aim to reduce the
margins in the DSM-IV while assembling the modern technical and experimental proof on the
experiential source of mental condition (Regier, Kuhl & Kupfer, 2013).
The DSM-5 approach assesses the symptoms of an individual for a two week period
duration, where it evaluates two specific symptoms, depressed mood, and loss of interest or