Monday, October 17, 2011
Task 3.1
I started my task 3.1 today. Well I shouldn´t say my task because it is our first group work in the online-course. I started reading the Comer chapter 4 and this time it only took 2 hours. That was pretty cool but to be honest the reading was a little boring. I mean I already heard about classifications (ICD/DSM) and diagnosis and during the reading I had a strange thought in my mind. Do I really want to know that not every diagnosis is right? Will it become my personal battlefield in later jobs if I question everything? Specially diagnoses of clinicians!? I´ve heard several social workers complaining about the cooperation with doctors and clinicians because they were to theoretic and did not understand the individual or they made up the wrong diagnosis of a mental disorder. For example a guy that was diagnosed with a depression that ended up beeing a borderliner ...
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interesting thoughts you share here concerning classification. you are right, you should not automatically distrust classifications or diagnoses, but I think it is important to maintain an open mind on these questions, and I hope that the group work will help you to build or conserve such an openness. perhaps you dont need it, if you already thought a lot about classification and diagnosis, but thats not self evident in students of your semester.
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