Is psychiatric diagnosis useful

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Assignment:

Critical essay: Is Psychiatric diagnosis useful? Critique the interplay of social, cultural, and political forces that influence psychiatric diagnosis.

Introduction

Include debates on psychiatric diagnosis

Task

Evaluate the utility of psychiatric diagnosis based on social, cultural, and/or political forces behind research and development on diagnosis. The idea is that you reach a clear conclusion in the debate on psychiatric diagnosis- is it necessary and useful, or unnecessary and not very useful?

Write in a way that persuades the reader to adopt your position, backing your assertions up with research evidence throughout the writing.
Restrict your critique to no more than 2-4 points in order to allow an in-depth analysis of each of them.
You can focus the essay on the psychiatric diagnosis, Schizophrenia.

Point to critically evaluate

Validity and reliability of psychiatric diagnosis
stigma (self/societal) associated with diagnosis
utility of diagnosis in the treatment and recovery.

Using peer-reviewed research to evidence your claims. (included reference).

Reference no: EM133532786

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