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Diagnosis In Social Work

• New Imperatives

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Discussion Questions

• What is the debate about typologies and labeling?
• Is there a difference between social work
  diagnosis and psychiatric diagnosis?
• Is the a difference between assessment and
  diagnosis? What is it?
• How has postmodernism influenced the discussion
  about diagnosis?

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Discussion Questions

• How is power an issue in diagnosis?
• What does it mean to say that diagnosis is not a
  search for pathology?
• What does it mean to say that diagnosis is not a
  process of labeling and categorizing?
• Turner say that one of the most important
  diagnoses we can make is when we say, I really
  dont know what this situation is all about and
  what I should do. How is that a diagnosis?

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Discussion Questions

• How is diagnosis both a process and a fact?
• What does it mean to say that diagnosis is not
  seeking to apply a particular theory?
• What is the connection between diagnosis and
  differential therapeutics?
• Who is responsible for diagnosis?
• What is social work diagnosis?

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Discussion Questions

• Turner says, I have often worried about settings
  where the first person to contact clients is a
  nonprofessional whose responsibility is to obtain
  an overview of the presenting situation and to
  decide when, where, and with whom the first
  interview is held. Why might this be a concern?

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Discussion Questions

• How is diagnosis an ethical responsibility?
• How is it an ethical responsibility to label?
  How can we label ethically? Turner says it is
  important that we base our practice on a template
  or paradigm. What does this mean?
• Why might it be unethical not to diagnose mental
  illness when it is present?

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Discussion Questions

• Why might it be wrong to diagnose a client who
  does not have an illness but who wants therapy?
• Why is it important to make diagnosis a part of
  the record?
• What is the distinction between assessment and
  diagnosis according to Turner?

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Discussion Questions

• Turner says, No theory is better than another.
  Can you see anything wrong about this statement?
• How does theory influence diagnosis?
• How is diagnosis risky?
• What is the purpose of diagnosis?