Fall 2024 SOWK 581.0 Class 05 Weekly Email
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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 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.
Reference
Kinter, K. (2020 Aug 7) Introduction to the DSM-5 [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxpKi7zMqr8
Segal, D. L., June, A., & Pifer, M. (2019). Basics and beyond in clinical and diagnostic interviewing. In D. L. Segal (Ed.), Diagnostic Interviewing (pp. 3-28). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9127-3_1
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
