Week 3 - Workshop reading

Question 1

Johnstone 2018

Answer 1

• Formulation can provide a credible alternative to psychiatric diagnosis in the context of public admissions about lack of reliability and validity of current diagnostic systems
  
  • Vigilance and best-practice principle are essential to ensure this approach is not assimilated back into the status quo.

Question 2

Fitzgerald, P (2012)

Answer 2

• DSM provides standardised means for making and coding psychiatric diagnoses
  
  • Reduces variations in the way diagnoses are applied
  • Controversial as clinicians argue that the complexity of presentations cannot be adequately summarised by these limited diagnostic codes
  • Categories don’t reflect natural disease boundaries
  • Conflicts of interest between task force members and pharmaceutical industry