Questions about the DSM & ICD poster

What’s on the DSM & ICD poster?

The systems against The criticisms, side by side. The systems: DSM-5-TR — American Psychiatric Association; The systems: ICD-11 — World Health Organization; The systems: Both are categorical; The systems: Criteria-based, operationalised; The systems: Revised periodically; The criticisms: Comorbidity is the rule, not the exception; The criticisms: Heterogeneity within a diagnosis; The criticisms: Cultural bias in criteria; The criticisms: Reliability better than validity; The criticisms: Boundary with normality is a judgement; Dimensional alternatives — RDoC, HiTOP — model symptoms on continua rather than in ca…. Educational reference, not diagnostic guidance. Diagnosis is a clinical judgement made by a qualified professional.

Who is the DSM & ICD poster for?

DSM & ICD belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning clinical & abnormal can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the DSM & ICD poster?

Categories, not dimensions. That choice drives most of the criticism. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so DSM & ICD belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with DSM & ICD?

Addiction, Anxiety and Biological Treatments sit alongside DSM & ICD in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AddictionAnxietyBiological Treatments

Is the DSM & ICD poster free to download and print?

Yes. DSM & ICD downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the DSM & ICD poster print at?

DSM & ICD is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of DSM & ICD loses nothing.Printing guide