Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-5 Disorders -- Clinician Version (Scid-5-CV)

The Clinician Version (SCID-5-CV) is published as a bound booklet and is an abridged and reformatted version of the SCID-5-RV for use by clinicians. It covers the diagnoses most commonly seen in clinical settings. Please see the Diagnostic Coverage of SCID-5-CV and SCID-5-RV to determine which SCID-5-RV disorders are not included in the SCID-5-CV. Despite the "clinician" designation, the SCID-5-CV can be used in research settings as long as the disorders of particular interest to the researcher are among those included in the SCID-5-CV. Screening questions are provided for the diagnoses that are included in their entirety in the SCID-5-RV but that have been left out of the SCID-5-CV. If the patient answers any of these screening questions in the affirmative, the clinician needs to follow up with an unstructured clinical assessment of the diagnostic requirements for the screened disorders. 

Besides diagnostic coverage, the SCID-5-CV differs from the SCID-5-RV in other ways. The specifiers included in the SCID-5-CV are limited to those that have an impact on the diagnostic coding. Thus, only the severity, psychosis, and remission specifiers for Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder are included in the SCID-5-CV. Similarly, the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder presentation types (i. e., predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive/impulsive, and combined) are included because they are also required to determine the diagnostic code. 

Moreover, although most of the disorders in the SCID-5-RV are assessed for both current and lifetime, the SCID-5-CV focuses largely on whether the criteria are currently met since the current clinical status of a disorder is most relevant for treatment decisions. The only disorders in the SCID-5-CV that also include a lifetime assessment are Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar I and II Disorders, Schizophrenia and the other psychotic disorders, Panic Disorder, and PTSD.