cluding symptoms, suicide risk, and disabilities in its descriptors) and questionable psy-
chometrics in routine practice. In order to provide a global measur e of disability, the WHO
Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) is included, for further stud y, in Section III of
DSM-5 (see the chapter “Assessment Measure s”). The WHODAS is based on the Interna-
tional Classification of  Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) for use across all of medicine
and health care. The WHODAS (version 2.0), and a modification developed for children/
adolescents and their parents by the Impairment and Disability Study Group were in-
cluded in the DSM-5 field trial.