Not possessing the competence to use the DSM-5 appropriately raises an ethical issue. Practitioners who use the DSM diagnosis must be trained. This training requires learning more than diagnostic categories; it involves:
a. understanding V- and D-codes.
b. knowing how to make a diagnosis fit criteria accepted by an insurance company.
c. knowing how to work within some kind of diagnostic and
assessment framework but not needing a clearpicture of the client's problem.
d. knowing personality theory, psychopathology, and seeing how they relate to therapeutic practice.
d
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Despite the perception of the public, use of illicit drugs in the U.S. has
A. Become a larger problem for law enforcement B. Increased slowly C. Declined markedly D. Increased markedly
Whenever a case manager believes that a client is a threat to him- or herself or to other people, the case manager:
A) ?should refer the client. B) ?needs to teach coping skills. C) ?must confront the client. D) ?has a duty to warn.
One current trend in family psychology is the emphasis on:
a. systems theory b. an ecosystemic analysis c. first order cybernetics d. none of the above
During the mourning phase, the emotions that clients find hard to suppress come to the surface
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false