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MANUAL SINGLE NATIONAL DISABILITY (PART II OF II) CHAPTER XII 12. MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS 2.1 GENERAL This chapter has been prepared based on the fifth chapter of the Tenth International Classification of Diseases (ICD - 10) and fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders American Psychiatric Society (DSM IV) . In ICD-10 are proposed either 11 groups of mental disorders, the DSM IV, in turn, these groups of disorders located in two different axes of multiaxial classification: the pictures or Axis I clinical syndromes and Axis II personality disorders and mental retardation. The classification of mental disorder based on clinical characteristics of the respective disorder, however, to specify the severity of it, and its forecast, the assessor need additional information about the different areas of activity of the person (family, social, academic, work, recreation, etc.). To qualify axis I disorde...