Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation /

• Main Author: Vanheule, Stijn (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Clinical psychology.; Critical psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Critical Psychology.

This book explores the purpose of clinical psychological and psychiatric diagnosis, and provides a persuasive case for moving away from the traditional practice of psychiatric classification. It discusses the validity and reliability of classification-based approaches to clinical diagnosis, and fram...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Dynamics of Decision Making: The Issue of Reliability in Diagnosis
• Chapter 2. Symptom and Context: The Issue of Validity in Diagnosis
• Chapter 3. From Mental Suffering to Mental Disorder and Back Again
• Chapter 4. Working with Clinical Case Formulation: Methodological Considerations.