... Abstract The Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) are a diagnostic and conceptual framework that aims to translate psychosocial variables that derived from psychosomatic research into operational tools whereby individual patients could be identified. A set of 12 syndromes...

...-IV) represent a majorchallenge in psycho-oncology. The application of the Diagnostic Criteria for PsychosomaticResearch (DCPR) has been shown to be useful in a more precise identification of severalpsychological domains in patients with cancer. The DCPR dimensions of health anxiety,demoralization...

... Abstract The Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) are a diagnostic and conceptualframework that was proposed a decade ago by an international group of investigators.The DCPR’s rationale was to translate psychosocial variables that derived from psychosomaticresearch...

... of particular psychosomatic syndromes and subthreshold psychopathology that areundetected by psychiatric diagnostic criteria. The Diagnostic Criteria for PsychosomaticResearch (DCPR) were developed with the aim of providing clinicians with operational criteriafor psychosomatic syndromes to overcome...

... variables (psychopathology, health care seeking, life events, somatosensoryamplification). Psychopathology may be undetected with the standard psychiatric criteria,particularly at a subclinical level. Using the new classification of the Diagnostic Criteriafor Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) for assessing...

...); at othertimes, however, they can only be identified by the subclinical forms of assessment providedby the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR). Indeed, in a populationstudy, the majority of patients suffered from at least one of the three DCPR syndromes considered:irritable mood, demoralization...

... Classification for DSM-V. Adv Psychosom Med Basel, Karger, 2007;28: 5. Porcelli P, Rafanelli C: Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) in the medical setting. Curr Psychiatry Rep 2010;12:246-254 6. Galeazzi GM, Ferrari S, Mackinnon A, Rigatelli M: Interrater reliability, prevalence, and relation...

... and therapeutic implications led to the development of the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research [ 53 ] together with a specific interview to assess patients [ 54 ]. The DCPR were introduced in 1995 and tested in various clinical settings [ 53‒56 ]. They also provide a classification for illness behavior...

...: Motor conversion disorders reviewed from a neuropsychiatric perspective. J Clin Psychiatry 2004;65:783-790. 60. Porcelli P, Rafanelli C: Criteria for psychosomatic research (DCPR) in the medical setting. Curr Psychiatry Rep 2010;12:246-254. 61. Siket MS, Merchant RC: Psychogenic seizures...

... of cognitive-behavioral therapy and other psychosocial interventions not only in somatoform disorders but also in medical diseases [ 38 ]. The concepts of functional somatic symptoms and psychosomatic syndromes converged in the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) [ 39 ] clusters concerning...

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