The DSM-III introduced several important changes to the classification and diagnosis

of psychological disorders including:

a. Explicit diagnostic criteria and a multiaxial diagnostic system designed to provide
descriptive rather than theory-based accounts of disorders
b. Explicit diagnostic criteria and a multiaxial diagnostic system designed to provide
psychoanalytically-based accounts of disorders
c. Explicit diagnostic criteria and a multiaxial diagnostic system designed to provide
behaviorally-based accounts of disorders
d. A diagnostic system designed to provide both categorical and dimensional
descriptions of disorders
e. A diagnostic system designed to provide both categorical and dimensional criteria
to identify and classify disorders


A

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