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Gray and Zide (social work, Barry U.) offer a competency-based assessment model that balances the disease orientation in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to help social work students move away from seeing a person as a "diagnosis," understand their unique experiences living with mental illness, and focus on their strengths and resilience. The model combines competency-based assessment with the diagnosis of specific disorders by encompassing the biopsychosocial, cultural, spiritual, and political aspects of their lives to keep the whole person in perspective, and consider how a mental disorder is experienced and expressed, and how symptoms are interpreted. They outline an ecosystems approach to assessment supported by systems theory, the person-in-environment perspective, and a strengths-based resilience approach to emphasize these multiple dimensions. They introduce the model and supporting theories and perspectives, as well as the DSM, then discuss specific diagnostic categories corresponding to it (cognitive, substance-related, schizophrenia and psychotic, mood, anxiety, dissociative, eating, personality, and somatoform, factitious, and malingering disorders) and their patterns, cases, and assessment summaries. They exclude learning, sexual and gender identity, sleep, and impulse-control disorders, and disorders due to general medical conditions. A new chapter on disorders in infancy, childhood, and adolescence has been added to this edition, which also has material on the changes in the fifth edition of the DSM. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
