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Behavioural Perspectives of Mental Wellbeing Assignment - Critical Review
The assignment is about Critically analyzing and evaluating the statement: "Psychiatric diagnostic classification systems lead to suboptimal outcomes for patients" that means we have to say we agree OR disagree with the statement.
Learning Outcomes -
- Apply behavioural health science perspectives to psychopathology; and
- Analyse the sociocultural and temporal context of major mental health disorders
It involves each student individually completing a critical thinking argumentative essay reviewing and discussing some of the issues surrounding the sociocultural and temporal construction of mental illness. One of the major debates in mental health is whether psychiatric diagnostic classi?cation systems such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the International Classi?cation for Diseases (ICD) medicalise normal human psychological/behavioural reactions to situations and label them as disorders and diagnosable mental health conditions. For example, following a bereavement, it is generally considered normal for people to experience signs of signi?cant mental distress such as sadness/low mood, anhedonia, sleep disturbance, changes in food intake, fatigue, and dif?culty concentrating. However, those psychological/ behavioural reactions also ?t the DSM-5 criteria for a diagnosis of major depressive episode if present for more than two weeks. Who determines what is normal or disordered, as well as how much or how long people are allowed to experience mental distress before it is labelled abnormal? Your critical review paper will attempt to explore these broad concepts in more detail.
A critical review essay is a task that asks you to critically review, analyse, evaluate, and synthesise literature related to a topic in order to provide a critical and persuasive defensible argument/position to an issue. You will then need to do further academic research and provide a defensible synthesis of your position relative to this provocative statement:
Critically analyse and evaluate the statement: "Psychiatric diagnostic classi?cation systems lead to suboptimal outcomes for patients"
Your paper must have a clear persuasive argument and position running through your writing and not just be a description or summary of relevant literature. Your paper's de?nitive position as to whether it is arguing for or against this statement must be explicitly stated in the introduction.
Your paper should present high quality credible evidence justifying and supporting your argument (largely using peer- reviewed journal articles and research studies), as well as present credible evidence not supporting your position with an active counter-argument and defence provided against this throughout your paper to demonstrate you have considered both sides of the debate re this issue.
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