medical diagnostic language – A New Vision for Mental Health

On Psychiatric Diagnostic Categories from the Point of View of Humanistic-Experiential Psychotherapy

Robert Elliott, Professor of Counselling (University of Strathclyde), reflects on psychiatric diagnostic categories in a blog post from his Robert’s EFT Scotland-California Blog: “… I taught in a clinical psychology doctoral course for almost 30 years, and also taught Abnormal Psychology on many occasions,…
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Guidelines on Language in Relation to Functional Psychiatric Diagnosis

Author: Editorial 26th January 2018 1 Comment

The “Beyond Functional Psychiatric Diagnosis Committee” – from the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP), which is part of the British Psychological Society – have published guidelines giving alternatives to standard medical diagnostic language. For example: Not “mental illness”, but instead…
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a coherent system

British Psychological Society, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), International Classification of Diseases (ICD), language, medical diagnostic language, New Approaches, psychosocial factors