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The mental health diagnostic process is a crucial part of any clinical work. However, today's common practice of assigning diagnoses is not based on a methodological decision-making process. The DxP is a diagnostic program primarily designed to assist clinicians with conducting an informed clinical assessment and case formulation. Currently, the DxP does not provide treatment guidelines for any given diagnosis.

 

Overall, the DxP computerizes the mental health diagnostic process according to the standards outlined in various editions of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In a way, the DxP is a reverse-engineering of this commonly used psychiatric diagnostic process, and the program emphasizes an ongoing (dynamic) diagnostic process, starting with the initial diagnosis assigned to the patient. In addition, students of the DSM can use the DxP to study the DSM’s structural clinical approach, learn in detail each diagnostic criteria element, and research the mental health diagnostic process.

 

The program's accuracy relies on professional input. Therefore, the use of the DxP to assess a mental disorder by non-clinical, non-medical, or otherwise, insufficiently trained individuals is not advised. Non-clinical decision makers should also be cautioned that a diagnosis does not carry any necessary implications regarding the etiology or causes of the individual's mental disorder.  

 

When starting a new diagnostic session with the DxP, the first step is to select a patient. Through the patient's entire diagnostic process, the program provides the clinician with a systematic diagnostic routine needed for informed and reliable clinical judgment. The DxP provides a quantity of informative text for each diagnostic element and a dynamic, easy-to-use, navigation of the mental health diagnostic process flow. Further, the program saves the patient's diagnostic process and offers comprehensive diagnostic reports.

 

The DxP is a HIPAA compliment secured application. It only stores the minimum required personal information about the patient - gender and approximate age, making it practically impossible to associate a record with a particular individual. For more information, see the security documentation.