Make a Suggestion
The Diagnostic and Statististical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) user community is an important source of information regarding the identification of problems and limitations with DSM-IV-TR. The links below permit the DSM user community with an opportunity to provide the APA with comments about problems with DSM-IV-TR and possible suggestions for DSM-5. All suggestions will be entered into an APA database for referral to the relevant DSM-5 Work Groups (if you have not yet registered for the DSM-5 database, you may do so here). The database functions primarily as a repository for such suggestions to ensure that they are routed to the proper Work Groups. It will be the responsibility of these DSM-5 Work Groups to evaluate your proposal and to consider how these may be integrated into their deliberations. Upon receipt of your submission, we may contact you to request further clarification or possibly to recommend research directions that you might consider in order to provide the necessary empirical support for your suggestion.
Suggestions/comments have been categorized into one of five types. Please select the type that best fits your suggestion or comment:
- Submit comments that serve to alert us about problems, limitations, or shortcomings with DSM-IV-TR (without specific suggestions about how to fix them). Miscellaneous comments that do not fit into the other categories go here as well.
- Submit suggestions for specific changes to diagnostic criteria or diagnostic class groupings.
- Submit suggestions for a new subtype to be added to an existing disorder.
- Submit suggestions for a new disorder to be considered for addition to DSM-5.
- Submit suggestions for deletion of an existing disorder.