The DAWBA clinical rater's manual
Practice cases relevant to anxiety disorders, not otherwise specified
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.
- Is a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder consistent with
the history?
- If not, what might be a more appropriate diagnosis?
- Do you think this child's symptoms warrant a diagnosis of any kind?
- Are this child's problems potentially relevant to a Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Service?
- If so, what diagnosis would you give him to acknowledge this?
- What diagnosis would be appropriate for this child?
- Do you think that the teacher's concerns should be recognised by
allocating a diagnosis?
- Do you think this child's symptoms warrant a diagnosis?
- Is the diagnosis of simple phobia appropriate for this child's
problems?
- What are the alternatives?
- Do you think that social phobia is an appropriate diagnosis for
this child?
- Does he require an additional diagnosis to cover other anxieties?
- What might be the reasons for the widely differing views of the parent and teacher about this child's symptoms?
- What psychiatric diagnosis could be used to recognise this child's difficulties?
- What are the possible clinical diagnoses for this child?
- Which diagnosis would you allocate?
- 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