[NABS-L] Question about DSM-5

[Johna Wright]

Hi, Vejas,

I have worked extensively with the DSM-5, and since it’s a diagnostic tool utilized by psychiatrists and psychologists as opposed to a traditional textbook, there aren’t many figures or charts. It’s organized in a list structure, giving you symptoms in groups. I hope this makes sense.

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Johna Wright
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> On Jul 30, 2020, at 17:06, Vejas Vasiliauskas via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone. 
> I'm about to start my masters in rehabilitation counseling, and one of the required texts is the DSM-5. I know vaguely about it due to having taken abnormal psychology in my undergraduate, but we never actually used it. 
> I downloaded it from Bookshare and it seems fairly accessible. Typically, when textbooks have diagrams, I read the text and go over the diagrams with a reader. I would have thought the DSM-5, being such an important text, would have diagrams, but searching in the text for "picture" or "figure" don't seem to lead to anything, even a figure description. 
> For these of you who have had to use the DSM-5, have there been any accessibility barriers in navigating it? 
> Thank you, 
> Vejas 
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