?Role Play 2: Psychoeducation about diagnosis and treatment planning session (covers material learned in weeks 6 and 7): This role play is a sample of the way you would discuss a diagnosis and propose evidence-based treatment to your client in a collaborative and supportive manner. It allows you to demonstrate your ability to provide psychoeducation about the client?s diagnosis or group of symptoms and propose evidence-based treatment modalities to help the client meet his/her/their goals. You will likely need to do some research about the types of interventions that are appropriate for treating specific diagnoses to help inform your discussion.?
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After completing the activities this week, you should be able to: week 6
- Describe the components of a bio-psycho-social assessment text
- Articulate the purpose of assessment and diagnosis in social work practice
- Conduct the first part of a first session with a client (introduction, informed consent); this is application of concepts learned in previous weeks
Readings
- Chapter 4 of 5th edition of textbook (16 pages, 44-59), Chapter 14 of 5th edition of Textbook pages 204 to 209
- Chapter 3 of the 6th edition of textbook, The Biopsychosocial Assessment
- Lane, R. (2014). Is it possible to bridge the Biopsychosocial and Biomedical models? BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 8(1), 3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898026/
- Sotomayor, C., & Gallagher, C. (2019). The Team Based Biopsychosocial Model: Having a Clinical Ethicist as a Facilitator and a Bridge Between Teams. HEC Forum, 31(1), 75-83.
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After completing the activities this week, you should be able to: week 7
- Articulate the purpose of a diagnostic interview
- Examine the relationship between diagnosis, assessment, and treatment planning
- Describe and evaluate ethical problems related to over-diagnosis, mis-diagnosis, and diagnosis that does not take culture into account
Readings
- Barsky, A. (2015). DSM-5 and the ethics of diagnosis?(Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/ethics-articles/dsm-5-and-ethics-of-diagnosis/
- Bingham, R., & Banner, N. (2014). The definition of mental disorder: Evolving but dysfunctional? Journal of Medical Ethics, 40(8), 537-42. https://bit.ly/32Lqcce?(Links to an external site.)
- Connor, D. (2011). Problems of Overdiagnosis and Overprescribing in ADHD. Psychiatric Times,28(8), 14-18. ?https://bit.ly/3ufAGMb
- Gold, Andrew, Goldman, & Schwenk. (2016). “I would never want to have a mental health diagnosis on my record”: A survey of female physicians on mental health diagnosis, treatment, and reporting. General Hospital Psychiatry, 43, 51-57. https://bit.ly/35BB79t
