Pediatric Mental Health Care Dysfunction Disorder?

In February, the American Psychiatric Association released draft revisions for the next iteration of its diagnostic manual (the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM-V]). One of the draft's most talked-about features is a new diagnostic category for children: temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria (TDD). The addition has been praised by some as a verdict on one of the hottest questions in child psychiatry: Is the dramatic increase in the number of children with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder appropriate? The answer appears to be no. But the creation of this new category raises another . . .