# Schedule for Rating Disabilities-Mental Disorders and Definition of Psychosis for Certain VA Purposes
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2015-03-19 · Effective 2015-03-19 · 80 FR 14308
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-06212
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 14308
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 3
- **Publication date:** 2015-03-19
- **Effective date:** 2015-03-19
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adopts as final, without change, an interim final rule amending its Schedule for Rating Disabilities (VASRD) dealing with mental disorders and its adjudication regulations that define the term "psychosis." Outdated references are replaced with references to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). Nomenclature used to refer to certain mental disorders is amended to conform to DSM-5. This rule also provides clarification of the applicability date.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/03/19/2015-06212/schedule-for-rating-disabilities-mental-disorders-and-definition-of-psychosis-for-certain-va)
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