ght regarding mood disorders and their etiology.
While real progress has been made over the years, Beckham, Leber and Youll (1995) report that:
Despite our increased understanding of mood disorders...a suitable system for the classification of depressive disorders continues to be illusive. (p. 35)
Nonetheless, the degree of precision and refinement that has been accomplished over the years is substantial; this refinement and precision of classification can perhaps best be seen in the categorization scheme used by the American Psychiatric Association in DSM-IV (1994).
The DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) not only classifies and categorizes depressive disorders (along with various episodes and course specifiers), it also includes generous details on a number of associated or related categories including: normal grief reaction; mild depressive reaction of a normal individual to a signif
...