DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria App Reviews

A great investment for any mental health profesional. Well designed and easy to use.

If what you want is a quick way to flip through and search the criteria, this app meets your needs. I would have liked to have some links where Dx are cross-referenced. Some of the charts (especially around personality disorders) would have also been nice to have. Even better would be access to the metrics now available on the APA website. Not a very powerful program. I hope there are planned updates.

I do like the way the app works and is laid out. Its user-friendly and has most of the needed codes and criteria. However, a big negative is that the V-codes are missing AND there have been changes to the codes at the APA website, but no updates on the app to reflect this. Itd be an easy fix, and for the price of the app it should be done regularly. I inquired and APA told me there were no plans to update the app "at this time," and to visit the website. If I wanted to have to do that, Id do that all the time rather than pay $70 got an app. Very disappointing.

I only paid for it for the Spanish update, which was a lie! Too expensive, not worth money and doesnt have what it claims to have.

Its missing the GAF and is not as informative as a hard copy. The APA already made some chages in the codes but this iPAD version ahs never been updated. Its a costly application for the little compacted information provied. They should charge 5.99 for this application. I officially giving it minus 2 stars.

I am using it on my iPhone and this is a lousy app. I may have given it 3 stars in 2007 when we used to have many lousy apps like this on iPhone but not in 2014! Someone here rightly said that its worth 2-3$.

This is basically a really good replacement for the pocket DSM-5, but not for the entire text. It would be nice to add differential diagnosis, but otherwise a very handy tool. I think the search function is especially useful rather than thumbing through a text.

There are descriptions of how substance use disorders are understood and should be described but the criteria required to meet the specific diagnosis are not listed.

I went ahead and hit the "Buy" button for the DSM-V iPhone app and Im actually enjoying thumbing through it. OK, "enjoy" might be an overstatement, but the app is well laid out and engaging as a way to explore. You can read by categories of diagnoses down the left column, or search easily. It has the ICD9 and ICD10 codes for each and lists diagnostic criteria. The app really is a lot better organized and approachable than the print edition. Its expensive for an app but will probably get more use than my bound edition. Of course what it lacks is a complete ICD10 listing independent of the DSM-sanctioned nomenclature, but for everyday use (and a comfortable way to warm up to DSM-V and ICD10) it may be worth it for many.

While I like the Ap for searching diagnostic criteria, the diagnostic codes are not currently up to date. Do not use the codes from this Ap until you have confirmed the coded are correct with the APA website.

In future versions, try to make sure that the video overplay floats on top as you look through the rest of the app texts.

All this app is is a collection of the bare-bones DSM criteria. Thought it’d be handy to have some of the DSM discussions, epi data, risk factors, etc. (even if somewhat abbreviated), on my iPhone for handy reference during rounds— but this, this I could have cut-and-pasted into a 10 page word document and emailed to myself in less than an hour. I guess it was my own fault being that the name states “Criteria,” but somehow I thought for $70 it would have been more than that, especially since it is published by the APA itself. The app would be worth $10, but even that would be pushing it.

Very disappointing. Good for learning about criteria. Poor for when you already know the diagnosis, and just want to quickly drill down just to the diagnostic code. Maybe it needs a section that is just names and codes, like the Pocket Guide to DSM-4. I cant believe significant computer programming talent went into this project.

I thought at this price there would be more info. But as its title suggests, its ONLY the list of diagnostic criteria, no codes, no differential diagnosis, no appendices. So... pretty much just a very expensive study tool. Trying to get a refund on this, its just not enough and still need a physical book on hand which defeats the purpose of having an app!

Highly disappointed with this purchase at this price. It does not contain the same level of information found in the hard copy of the DSM 5. Invest your resources in the hard copy.

I wish I would have read the reviews prior to buying this. It gives you a good overall view of the disorders but it is not good for clinical use. Definitely not worth the cost. I will be attempting to get a refund.