Beyond the DSM story : ethical quandaries, challenges, and best practices /

Beyond the DSM story : ethical quandaries, challenges, and best practices / Karen Eriksen, Victoria E. Kress.

"Beyond the DSM Story presents challenges to the Diagnostic Statistical Model (DSM) system from ethical and cultural perspectives, critically evaluating its fit with other professional and theoretical orientations. It offers possible solutions and best practices for addressing ethical, theoreti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eriksen, Karen, 1956-
Other Authors: Kress, Victoria E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders > Evaluation.
Mental illness > Diagnosis.
Mental illness > Classification.
Mental disorders.
Table of Contents:
  • The price of diagnosis
  • Ethics meets diagnosis
  • Multicultural challenges to the DSM
  • Feminist challenges to the DSM
  • Toward resolving the quandaries and pursuing ethical and contextually sensitive diagnostic practice
  • The case of nine-year-old Janelle and her mother
  • The case of Anna and Mark
  • The case of Ellen
  • A developmental, constructivist model for ethical assessment (which includes diagnosis of course).

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