PSYC 335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Intelligence, Semi-Structured Interview, Menninger Foundation
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Classifications & measures of strengths & positive outcomes. Built menninger clinic to attempt to change the way health care professionals viewed the diagnosis, prevention, & treatment of mental illness. Encouraged clinicians & researchers to dispense the old labels of sickness & develop diagnostic system that describes the life process rather than states or conditions. Focus on the power of love, hope, and faith. Strength: a capacity for feeling, thinking, or behaving in a way that allows optimal functioning in the pursuit of valued outcomes. Work on the classification of weakness and illnesses has had much more effort and history than of strengths. In 21st c. 2 classifications of illness have attained worldwide acceptance: the world health organizations international classifications of diseases (icd) Classified all diseases, much more broad: the american psychological association"s diagnostic & statistical manual (dsm) No classifications of strengths of positive outcomes has achieved worldwide use or acceptance but some have been created.
