Exploratory examination of the utility of demoralization as a diagnostic specifier for adjustment disorder and major depression

Demoralization, a state of lowered morale and poor coping, has a prevalence of 13 –18% among patients with advanced cancer. We surveyed clinicians' perspectives of the utility of “with demoralization” as a diagnostic specifier for adjustment and depressive disorders.

Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: D.W. Kissane, I. Bobevski, P. Gaitanis, J. Brooker, N. Michael, C. Lethborg, G. Richardson, P. Webster, C. Hempton Source Type: research