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The need for a category of ‘religious and spiritual problems’ in ICD-11

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Walid Khalid Abdul-Hamid
Walid Khalid Abdul-Hamid*
Affiliation:
Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts & The London Medical School, London, UK, email Walid.Abdul-Hamid@nepft.nhs.uk
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The World Health Organization's International Advisory Group for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders is currently working on the development of ICD-11 (World Health Organization, 2007). A more responsive ICD coding system should incorporate recent work which suggests that the religious and spiritual domain is important for a comprehensive, culturally sensitive diagnosis and management plan (e.g. Sims, 1992, 2004; Koenig et al, 2008). A ‘religious or spiritual problems’ category, similar to that in DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), should be included in ICD-11.

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Thematic Papers – Faith and Psychiatry
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International Psychiatry , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , August 2011 , pp. 60 - 61
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