What Might an Alternative to the <i>DSM</i> Suitable for Psychotherapists Look Like?

Raskin, Jonathan D.

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“…Accordingly, a compassionate framework appeals to clinicians to advance therapeutic pluralism to increase the possibility of helping. Specifically, compassion demands the development of a potentiality model that integrates clients' resources into a dimensional understanding of mental health difficulties (Raskin, 2019). As an example, I had to be mindful of working within my competence (BPS, 2018) and utilize supervision to avoid additional suffering by imposing the therapeutic approach within which I was most familiar as the only possibility to support my clients.…”

Section: Compassion As Access To the Suffering Othermentioning

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Social justice in counseling psychology practice: Actualizing the ethics of compassion

Amari

2021

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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This article articulates how compassion can be integrated into counseling psychology practice to augment the commitment to social justice. Drawing on a humanistic–existential paradigm that asserts the primacy of ethics, a multilayered understanding of compassion is explored in its implication for practitioners. First, as acknowledgment of the other’s suffering, compassion means being aware of the relational dynamics that extends from the therapist–client dyad to include the wider communities to which they belong. Second, as appreciation for suffering as an existential given, compassion expresses connectedness through the shared experience of otherness while revealing the inherent potential toward growth in clients. Third, as access to the suffering other, compassion exposes the societal power dynamics that threaten the therapeutic relationship. Fourth, as acceptance of the response to the suffering other, compassion requires to embrace the intrapersonal and interpersonal experience evoked in meeting clients. Fifth, as alleviation of the other’s suffering, compassion becomes the expression of a value-based practice that can drive the shift that sees psychotherapy as an interpersonal process based on connectedness to foster healing. Therefore, compassion is put forward as the foundation of counseling psychology ethics of social justice.

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Section: Compassion As Access To the Suffering Othermentioning

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Social justice in counseling psychology practice: Actualizing the ethics of compassion

Amari

2021

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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Systemic Perspectives and Psychiatric Diagnosis: Mutually Exclusive or Mutually Inclusive?

Axberg,

Petitt

2023

Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy

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In common with most others who work in the field of mental health, the authors have been obliged to develop a professional relationship with the two dominant diagnostic guides, The International Classification of Disease 10 (ICD-10) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5). While they concur with the widely held view that there are many problematic issues connected to both diagnostic systems, many of the conflicts generated within the mental health field that we are aware of seem to emerge from the different meanings that are attributed to them and/or the ways in which they are applied. We argue for the position that a system of diagnostic categories is necessary for all psychotherapists, in a parallel but different manner to the way in which it is important for medical practitioners. We systemic therapists also have a fundamental need of organizing the domain of human suffering so that we can bring order to our clinical practice, our research and our professional communication. The most important question is “how?”.

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Toward a Descriptive Problem-Based Taxonomy for Mental Health: A Nonmedicalized Way Out of the Biomedical Model

Cantú

2023

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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Psychiatric diagnoses found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM) and International Classification of Diseases ( ICD) are pervasive in the field of mental health to help individuals access services such as psychotherapy. In the United States, they are used for insurance reimbursement purposes and by providers in client–clinician encounters. Psychiatric disorders tend to be subsumed under the biomedical model of mental health and have been critiqued for contributing to iatrogenic harm and stigma in addition to fundamental concerns about their validity and reliability. However, current practice of requiring psychiatric diagnoses within health care systems occurs due to federal regulations and does not allow for the formal use of alternative taxonomies, forcing clinicians and clients into the biomedical model. This article will explicate key stakeholders involved and technicalities dictating the use of psychiatric diagnoses. It will introduce an organizing framework, borrowing from the field of social work accompanied by an example of how the field can move away from the biomedical model given the regulations at play. This article proposes the interdisciplinary development of an alternative nonmedicalized, psychosocial, and codified descriptive problem-based taxonomy that can decouple psychiatric diagnosis from the eligibility for and provision of mental health services.

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What Might an Alternative to the DSM Suitable for Psychotherapists Look Like?

Cited by 3 publications

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Social justice in counseling psychology practice: Actualizing the ethics of compassion

Social justice in counseling psychology practice: Actualizing the ethics of compassion

Systemic Perspectives and Psychiatric Diagnosis: Mutually Exclusive or Mutually Inclusive?

Toward a Descriptive Problem-Based Taxonomy for Mental Health: A Nonmedicalized Way Out of the Biomedical Model

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