The DAWBA clinical rater's manual
Practice cases relevant to depression
For each case:
- Click onto the case number to move to the rating screens for that case.
- Use the information from the rating screens to answer the questions.
- Check your answers by reading what we say in the text box in Note.
- You can also look at the DSM and ICD screens
to see our clinical diagnoses.
If you haven't yet learnt to navigate your way round the rating screens, we strongly recommend
you click here to work your way through the introductory tutorial
before starting on the practice cases listed below.
- Explore why this child fulfils criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD according to
ICD-10 and not DSM-IV. Given the clinical picture revealed by the reports and the
open-ended comments, should this child be considered to have PTSD according to DSM-IV
after all?
- Do you accept the three other anxiety diagnoses generated by the computer?
- Do you agree with the diagnosis of depressive disorder?
- Why does this child receive a DSM-IV diagnosis of separation anxiety disorder but not an ICD-10 diagnosis?
- How should the child's disorder be recognised according to ICD-10?
- What significance do you attach to the depressive symptomatology?
- Do you agree with the computer diagnosis of depression?
- Why does the computer fail to allocate a diagnosis of generalized
anxiety?
- Why does the computer diagnose separation anxiety according to
DSM-IV but not ICD-10? Do you accept this?
- What do you think about the diagnosis of a conduct disorder?
- In the light of the open-ended comments, who seems to be the most reliable
informant?
- Are the two computer-generated diagnoses appropriate for clinical
diagnoses?
- What other clinical diagnosis is missing?
- What diagnostic category would you use for the behavioural
symptoms?
- Do you think that this child should receive a diagnosis of a
depressive disorder?
- Why is this child not appropriate for a diagnosis of ADHD-
inattentive type?
- What aspects of the open-ended comments are consistent with a diagnosis of
post-traumatic stress disorder?
- Do you think the diagnosis of separation anxiety is appropriate?
- How could the teacher's concerns be recognised?
- What features in the open-ended comments go against this child having a
diagnosis of a major depressive disorder?
- Do you think she should be given the diagnosis?
- What conclusion can you make about this child's panic symptoms?
- Do you think her anxiety symptoms are truly generalized?
- What would you do with the computer-allocated diagnosis of OCD?
- What would you do with the computer-generated diagnosis of major
depressive episode?
Last modified : 11/07/14