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

Eriksen, Karen, 1956-

Beyond the DSM story : ethical quandaries, challenges, and best practices / Karen Eriksen, Victoria E. Kress. - 1st ed. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005. - xv, 259 p. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-245) and index.

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).

0761930329 (pbk.)

2004010089

101236105 DNLM


Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders--Evaluation.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.


Mental illness--Diagnosis.
Mental illness--Classification.
Mental illness--Diagnosis--Case Reports.
Psychology, Pathological--Diagnosis--Case Reports.
Cross-Cultural Comparison--Case Reports.
Mental illness--Classification--Case Reports.
Psychology, Pathological--Classification--Case Reports.
Prejudices--Case Reports.
Psychiatry--Ethics--Case Reports.

RC469 / .E75 2005