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DSM-5 Draft Criteria Available for Public Comment through April 20
The American Psychiatric Association is seeking your comments on proposed criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health and other health professionals for diagnostic and research purposes. Proposed DSM-5 draft criteria will be available for review and comment at www.DSM5.org from February 10 to April 20, 2010. Health professionals, consumers of mental health services and family members are invited to visit the site to review and comment on the draft criteria.

DSM-5 remains a work in progress: following the public comment period, the DSM-5 Task Force and Work Groups will spend two years reviewing and refining proposed criteria based on public comments and the results of field trials, which will be conducted in three phases to test some of the proposed diagnostic criteria in real-world clinical settings. The release of the final DSM-5 is expected in May 2013. For more information, visit www.DSM5.org.

National Training Institute: Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches to Sustaining Healthy Families and Multicultural Communities
February 6-10, 2010 in San José, California.
For more information, please contact Linda Viney at (585) 275-3571 or via email at Linda_Viney [at] urmc.rochester.edu.

FPR-UCLA Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference
Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment
Los Angeles, California
January 22-24, 2010 (Fri-Sun)
UCLA Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, Room 132.
This conference highlights the latest developments in psychiatric disorder/mental illness research and scholarship across many fields, including neurobiology, psychology, history, and anthropology. Registration is now open. For conference information, please visit: http://www.thefpr.org/conference2010/overview.php, or contact UCLA Central Ticket Office by email at cto@tickets.ucla.edu.

A Biblical Approach to Mental Health
An online course taught by
Kalman J. Kaplan, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Jones, M.Div., through the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There are several workshops a year.
Registration information, application forms and future session dates are available at www.rsmh.org

43rd Annual AAS Conference
April 21st - 24th, 2010
Hilton Walt Disney World©
Orlando, FL