Critical Thinking in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
"This much-needed volume brings to the clinician or student some of the best critical-minded analysis by some of the most insightful thinkers about psychiatric diagnosis today. The thought-provoking questions these essays raise, and the multifaceted and p
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Critical Thinking in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
Essential Clinical Social Work Series Series editor Carol Tosone, New York, USA
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Editor Barbara Probst School for Social Work Smith College Northampton, MA, USA
Essential Clinical Social Work Series ISBN 978-3-319-17773-1 ISBN 978-3-319-17774-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17774-8
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In Loving Memory of My Parents Lillian S. Hawthorne, MSW Edward I. Hawthorne, PhD
Foreword
The book you are now holding in your hand, Critical Thinking in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis, should unsettle you. And for that, you should be thankful. Let me explain why. For several centuries, those who attended to people in the United States who seemed very disturbed or disturbing to others believed that they knew what was wrong and what needed to be done. The medieval view was that the disturbed were possessed by the devil and needed to be burned at the stake to save their souls persisted into Colonial times. In the mid-nineteenth century, the belief was that they were suffering from the stresses of the new urban environments and needed to be sequestered in quiet, well-structured, small asylums in rural environments that would restore their spirits so that they could be returned cured to their home communities. By the turn of the twentieth century, those small asylums had become massive institutions, mislabeled as state hospitals, where the disturbed were in involuntary confinement as incurable and where they would spend the r
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