Week five is a synchronous class week. We will meet on Saturday (09/21/24) to discuss understanding and using the DSM-5-TR. I will share the slides on MyHeritage as we approach class. Please also make sure that you bring your DSM with you.

Unit Assignments

Read

• Segal et al. (2019) Basics and Beyond in Clinical and Diagnostic Interviewing

Watch

• Kinter (2020) Introduction to the DSM-5

Weekly Online Discussion Forums

This week, there are three discussion forums for you to engage in. I want you to make a total of two replies across any of the forums before class this Saturday. The following is a brief overview of the forums for this week:

• The forum, thoughts and findings about the diagnostic process, asks students to consider the reading provided this week and share some of their thoughts.
• In an effort to expose students to an overview of the DSM’s content, Findings Looking into the Content of the DSM, provides a place to engage with various resources and reflect on that engagement.
• I thought that taking the format of an AMA - The DMS Edition, might be an interesting way to spend a portion of our class this week.

Unit Resources

You don’t have any reading from the textbook this week (which also means no reading quiz). I have two sources (and some more in the forums) for you to review this week. First, Segal et al. (2019) describe a diagnostic interview well. It is a book chapter, so it is a bit longer, but I think it is valuable and additive to the information offered in your textbook. There are some really good discussions about emerging and new clinicians that I think could be helpful.

I would like you to watch Kinter (2020). I went down the rabbit hole as I was preparing, looking for a good overview view for you to watch. I like the presentation that Klinter offers. Its is broad, but with some interesting specifics for different areas of diagnosis. In one of the forums, I share some other potential sources for students to look at. His video is only 30 minutes long and covers most of the areas of the DSM. I will say that it is the DSM-5, not the DSM-5-TR, so even some of the changes he talks about have changed again since (consider substance use disorders), but I think it provides some good considerations. See Introduction to the DSM-5.

To-Do Lists

• Read Segal et al. (2019) Basics and Beyond in Clinical and Diagnostic Interviewing
• Watch Kinter (2020) Introduction to the DSM-5
• Make at least two replies across any of the three forums
• Attend class on Saturday