ICD-10

From parent levels

ChapterVMental and behavioural disordersOpen

Inclusions

  • disorders of psychological development

Exclusions

  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)
BlockF90-F98Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescenceOpen
CategoryF93Emotional disorders with onset specific to childhoodOpen

Mainly exaggerations of normal developmental trends rather than phenomena that are qualitatively abnormal in themselves. Developmental appropriateness is used as the key diagnostic feature in defining the difference between these emotional disorders, with onset specific to childhood, and the neurotic disorders (F40-F48).

Exclusions

  • when associated with conduct disorder (F92.-)

F93.9

CategoryResidualBlock F90-F98Chapter V

Childhood emotional disorder, unspecified

Parent: F93 Emotional disorders with onset specific to childhood