Section III of the DSM-5, Cultural Formulation, provides a detailed discussion of culture
and the diagnosis. What are the 3 concepts that offer greater clinical utility than the
former culture-bound syndrome?
What will be an ideal response?
Suggested response:
? Cultural syndrome – or a cluster of co-occurring symptoms found is a
specific cultural group, community or context
? Cultural idioms of distress – a phrase or way of talking about suffering
among individuals of a cultural group referring to shared concepts of
pathology and ways of expressing, communicating or naming essential
features of distress
? Cultural explanation or perceived cause – an explanatory model that offers a
culturally conceived cause for symptoms, illness or distress
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The term "service coordination" was first used to describe the process of case management during which decade?
A. 1980s B. 1970s C. 2000s D. 1990s
List and briefly describe three of the six core values in the NASW Code of Ethics.
What will be an ideal response?
In this book, we are mainly interested in drug taking:
A. for the purpose of getting high. B. that results in arrest. C. healing the body. D. to achieve a specific, delimited, practical, instrumental purpose. E. healing the mind.
When might closed-ended, multiple choice questions be useful?
A) ?When clients who are not used to expressing or reporting on their feelings require a larger vocabulary to describe what they are experiencing B) ?When practitioners want to inhibit the client's exploration C) ?When clients have a large emotional vocabulary and require an even larger vocabulary to describe what they are experiencing D) ?When the practitioner wants to develop a rapid-fire questioning style