The DAWBA clinical rater's manual
Practice cases relevant to panic disorder
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?
- Is the diagnosis of Panic Disorder warranted?
- How do the open-ended comments help us in the assessment of the less
common disorders report?
- 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?
Last modified : 11/07/14