Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of the background, rationale for and content of the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders in Infancy and Early Childhood Disorders, DC:0-5. Building upon previous efforts, this comprehensive nosology of early childhood disorders was constructed by striking a balance between placing a high value on having criteria and disorders that are empirically grounded and prioritizing dissemination of criteria and disorders that are clinically useful and meaningful.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Acevedo, B. P., Jagiellowicz, J., Aron, E., Marhenke, R., & Aron, A. (2017). Sensory processing sensitivity and childhood quality’s effects on neural responses to emotional stimuli. Clinical Neuropsychiatry: Journal of Treatment Evaluation, 14, 359–373.
American Psychiatric Association. (1987). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed. revised ed.). Author.
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Author.
Belden, A., Renick, N., Thompson, N. R., & Luby, J. (2008). Temper tantrums in healthy versus depressed and disruptive preschoolers: Defining tantrum behaviors associated with clinical problems. Journal of Pediatrics, 152, 117–122.
Biederman, J., Hirshfeld-Becker, D. R., Rosenbaum, J., Hérot, C., Friedman, D., Snidman, N., Kagan, J., & Faraone, S. V. (2001). Further evidence of association between behavioral inhibition and social anxiety in children. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 1673–1679.
Biedzio, D., & Wakschlag, L. (2019). Developmental emergence of disruptive behaviors beginning in infancy: Delineating normal/abnormal boundaries to enhance early identification. In C. H. Zeanah (Ed.), Handbook of infant mental health (4th ed., pp. 407–425). Guilford Press.
Briggs-Gowan, M. J., Owens, P. L., Schwab-Stone, M. E., Leventhal, J. M., Leaf, P. J., & Horwitz, S. M. (2003). Persistence of psychiatric disorders in pediatric settings. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 1360–1369.
Cohen, P., Cohen, J., & Brook, J. (1993). An epidemiological study of disorders in late childhood and adolescence--II. Persistence of disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 34, 869–877.
Egger, H. L., Erkanli, A., Keeler, G., Potts, E., Walter, B. K., & Angold, A. (2006). Test-retest reliability of the preschool age psychiatric assessment (PAPA). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 538–549.
Felitti, V. J., Anda, R. F., Nordenburg, D., Williamson, D. F., Spitz, A. M., Edwards, V., Koss, M. P., & Marks, J. S. (1998). Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults: The adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 14, 245–258.
Gleason, M. M., & Humphreys, K. L. (2016). Categorical diagnosis of extreme hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention in very young children. Infant Mental Health Journal, 37, 476–485.
Gleason, M. M., Zamfirescu, A., Egger, H. L., Nelson, C. A., Fox, N. A., & Zeanah, C. H. (2011). Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in very young children in Romanian pediatric setting. European Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 20(10), 527–535.
Insel, T., Cuthbert, B., Garvey, M., Heinssen, R., Pine, D. S., Quinn, K., Sanislow, C., & Wang, P. (2010). Research domain criteria (RDoC): Toward a new classification framework for research on mental disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 167, 748–751.
Keren, M. (2016). Eating and feeding disorders in the first five years of life: Revising the DC:0-3R diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood and rationale for the new DC:0-5 proposed criteria. Infant Mental Health Journal, 37, 498–508.
Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., & Watson, D. (2018). A paradigm shift in psychiatric classification: the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). World Psychiatry, 17, 25–26.
McLaughlin, K. A., Weissman, D., & Bitran, D. (2019). Childhood adversity and neural development: A systematic review. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 1, 277–312.
Meltzer, H., Gatward, R., Corbin, T., Goodman, R., & Ford, T. (2003). Persistence, onset, risk factors and outcomes of childhood mental disorders. https://www.dawba.info/abstracts/B-CAMHS99+3_followup_report.pdf
Mulrooney, K., Keren, M., & Osofsky, J. D. (Eds.). (in press). DC:0–5™ casebook: A guide to the use of “DC:0–5™: Diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood” in diagnostic assessment and treatment planning. ZERO TO THREE.
Sarche, M., Tsethlikai, M., Godoy, L., Emde, R. N., & Fleming, C. (2019). Cultural perspectives for assessing infants and young children. In R. DelCarmen-Wiggins & A. Carter (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of infant, toddler and preschool mental health assessment (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Soto, T., Giserman Kiss, I., & Carter, A. S. (2016). Symptom presentations and classification of autism spectrum disorder in early childhood: Application to the diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood (DC:0-5). Infant Mental Health Journal, 37, 486–497.
Task Force on Research Diagnostic Criteria: Infancy and Preschool. (2003). Research diagnostic criteria for preschool children: The process and empirical support. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 1504–1512.
von Klitzing, K. (2017). Should we diagnose babies? Some notes on the launch of the new Zero to five classification system. WAIMH Perspectives, July 11.
World Health Organization. (2019). International classification of diseases (11th ed.). Author.
Zeanah, C. H. (Ed.). (2019). Handbook of infant mental health (4th ed.). Guilford Press.
Zeanah, C. H., & Lieberman, A. (2016). Defining relational pathology in early childhood: The diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood DC:0-5 approach. Infant Mental Health Journal, 37, 509–520.
Zeanah, C. H., Carter, A., Cohen, J., Egger, H., Gleason, M. M., Keren, M., Lieberman, A., Mulrooney, K., & Oser, C. (2017). Should we diagnose babies? No! Should we diagnose disorders in babies? Yes! WAIMH Perspectives, September 25.
ZERO TO THREE. (1994). Diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood. Author.
ZERO TO THREE. (2005). Diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood (rev. ed.). Author.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Zeanah, C.H., Mirzoy, S. (2024). Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Development Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, DC:0-5. In: Osofsky, J.D., Fitzgerald, H.E., Keren, M., Puura, K. (eds) WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48631-9_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48631-9_11
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-48630-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-48631-9
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and PsychologyBehavioral Science and Psychology (R0)