SWRK 424 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociological Perspectives, Microsoft Powerpoint, Presenting Problem
23 Jan 2018
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Role of medication as a social worker, documentary & healing voices. Dsm: classification system from the american psychiatric association, it gives us a working tool making us capable of working in a more multi/inter-disciplinary way. Over the years, it started off with about 20 pages and now has evolved to over 900 pages. Now aspects of everyday life has now become a psychiatric disorder. Ma(cid:374)(cid:455) ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hiat(cid:396)ists sa(cid:455) (cid:455)ou (cid:862)ha(cid:448)e to take the d m (cid:449)ith a g(cid:396)ai(cid:374) of salt(cid:863). The(cid:396)e"s (cid:374)ot (cid:374)ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) as (cid:373)u(cid:272)h as s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h as (cid:455)ou"d thi(cid:374)k the(cid:396)e is. The diag(cid:374)osis a(cid:396)e theo(cid:396)eti(cid:272)al, the(cid:455)"(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot based on scientific evaluation. The documentary states that the dsm was made and created to have people to treat and to get government funding. They did not have scientific reasoning, and is based purely on observation. They are voted into the dsm, and can be voted out. So the dsm is political and not actually scientific.
