Week 3

Read the following

• Module 3: Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

• Not So Fast, a comment to Riskind about diagnostic schemes. Efran and Cohen (2019)

• Spitting in client’s soup, an article about language, concepts, personal constructs Efran and Fauber (2015)

• PDM Lingiardi and McWilliams (2015) Found here:needs link

• Epidemiology youtube

consider having read brian holt’s excerpts from pdm2

• Strengths of DSM vs other schemes.

Just a test of the emergency broad cast

After reading the above…

Do the following

1. Why do people do what they do?

2. What models of psychology resonate with you and your experiences?

3. How do others (people, institutions) “spit in your soup”?

4. What is the soup?

References

Efran, Jay S, and Jonah N Cohen. 2019. “Not so Fast: A Response to Raskin.” The Journal of Humanistic Psychology 59 (3): 385–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167818777600.

Efran, Jay S, and Rob Fauber. 2015. “Spitting in the Client’s Soup.” Psychotherapy Networker 39 (2). https://northseattle.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1724243253?accountid=36118.

Lingiardi, Vittorio, and Nancy McWilliams. 2015. “The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual - 2nd Edition (PDM-2).” World Psychiatry 14 (2): 237–39. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20233.