Question

Lorraine has been diagnosed with depression.

She has had a difficult time coping with the death of her mother.
This social factor would be classified in the DSM-IV-TR on

AXIS 1
AXIS 2
AXIS 3
AXIS 4

Answer 1

Social factor would be axis IV in DSM-IV-TR

In diagnosing psychiatric problem, you need to do multiaxial assessment of 5 axis. Axis I is psychiatric problem, axis II personality, axis III for other medical problem, axis IV for environtment or social factor then axis V for Global Assessment Functional(GAF) scale