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Days in the Lives of Social Workers

DSM-5

Child Development, Third Edition: A Practitioner's Guide

Racial and Ethnic Groups

Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording

Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond

[Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life]
(https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Feelings-Harbinger-Self-Help-Workbook/dp/1608822087/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3ZW7PRW5TK2PB0MDR9R3)

Interpersonal Process in Therapy: An Integrative Model

[The Clinical Assessment Workbook: Balancing Strengths and Differential Diagnosis]
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Helping Abused and Traumatized Children

Essential Research Methods for Social Work

Navigating Human Service Organizations

Privilege: A Reader

Play Therapy with Children in Crisis

The Color of Hope: People of Color Mental Health Narratives

The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner

Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

Deviant Behavior

Social Work with Older Adults

The Aging Networks: A Guide to Programs and Services

[Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice]
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Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change

Ethnicity and Family Therapy

Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook

DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents

DBT Skills Manual

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets

Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need

Novels

[A People’s History of the United States]
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Life For Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Tuesdays with Morrie

The Death Class <- This one is based off of a course I took at my undergrad university

The Quiet Room

Girl, Interrupted

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Flowers for Algernon

Of Mice and Men

A Child Called It

Go Ask Alice

Under the Udala Trees

Prozac Nation

It's Kind of a Funny Story

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Yellow Wallpaper

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Okay, there can be a lot of misinformation around clinical diagnoses of mental illnesses, so I'm gonna try to clear up a few things.

First off, sociopathy and psychopathy aren't actually psychiatric terms. They are more colloquial words traditionally associated with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).

Now, personality disorders are very hard to diagnose, because there are just so many categories, but these categories aren't always all that different. A psychiatrist can choose to diagnose someone with ASPD, with avoidant personality disorder, with narcissistic personality disorder, with borderline personality disorder, or with schizotypal personality disorder. And though the DSM-5 has fairly specific characteristics for each disorder, an actual real patient might display characteristics of two or more of those disorders. And if that wasn't enough, the DSM-5 now offers Personality Disorder NOS (not otherwise specified) as a category, for when diagnosing someone with a specific disorder is just so difficult.

Now that we got out of the way, let's look at ASPD specifically, shall we? There are several criteria that should be met to diagnose ASPD.

First, significant impairments in personality functioning manifest by (skewed identity OR skewed self-direction) AND (lack of empathy OR lack of intimacy).

Second, pathological personality traits in the following domains: manipulativeness, deceitfulness, callousness, hostility, irresponsibility, impulsivity, and risk taking.

Third, the impairments in personality functioning and personality trait expression should be relatively stable across time and consistent across different situations.

Fourth the impairments in personality functioning and the individual's personality trait expression are not better understood as normative for the individual's development stage or socio-cultural environment.

Fifth, the impairments in personality functioning and the individual‟s
personality trait expression are not solely due to the direct
physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse,
medication) or a general medical condition (e.g., severe head
trauma).

And finally, the individual should be at least 18 years old.

So there you have it. That's ASPD.

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TL;DR: armchair diagnoses based on a single behavior are useless.

MRIs show the brains of trans people being vastly more similar to those of the gender they identify with. Gender dysphoria is a recognized disorder where a person's assigned sex doesn't match up with the gender they identify with. The largest psychiatric organization in the world, the APA (I shouldn't have to say this, but the combined knowledge, study, and experience of thousands of psychiatrists world wide just might surpass the cursory research you've done on the internet), states that Gender Dysphoria is not in itself a mental disorder or mental illness.

The standard treatment recognized by the aforementioned APA is... (wait for it) Sex reassignment therapy and surgery! This treatment has an 80% rate of improving the severeness of gender dysphoria, and consistently increases quality of life at very much statistically significant rates.

All this information can be found in the Universal authority for psychiatric diagnoses, the DSM-5, which is available on amazon, used, for $35! What an incredible value! Actual, real knowledge in the area of which you speak, just for thirty five bucks? Of course, buying new helps support more, real research, but even so, sounds like a hell of a deal to me.

All of this is completely besides the point that it really just does not fucking matter what people want to be recognized as and called. It makes practically no difference on your quality of life, but you have the opportunity to just be fucking nice to someone. I'm going to take a wild guess and say you aren't a professional athlete on any level whatsoever, and that even this transwoman in this shitty article makes no difference to you. Maybe cut her some slack, yeah?

Let's even continue with your metaphor: you seem to think that human beings are comparable to motorcycles, but I just sorta think humans are just people. Because of your mindset, can I buy you for money and ride you 3 seasons out of the year (assuming I have the right jacket and gloves and shit)?

Tell me more about this book. Is it the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders written by the American Psychiatric Association? If so, a lot of people would have their guns taken away for no good reason. For one example, I can't think of any good reason to take someone's gun that has an eating disorder. I think that u/lowdiver asks a valid question.

https://www.amazon.com/Diagnostic-Statistical-Manual-Mental-Disorders/dp/0890425558

This one.

https://www.amazon.com/Diagnostic-Statistical-Manual-Mental-Disorders/dp/0890425558

This is a very complicated question and IMO we can't possibly begin to make a valid sweeping generalization in this regard due to, among other things, the myriad religions and religious practices of the world and the plethora of psychiatric and cognitive pathologies, many of which we are still studying, that afflict a person. With that being said, my shot-in-the-dark guess, with no data to support it, is that no, religious belief or practice does not always associate with a mental disorder. Humans are naturally inquisitive creatures and are very observant. There is so much of the world that the large majority of us observe but cannot, for whatever reason, understand. Religion can be a tool utilized to fill those gaps in knowledge. Whether or not you agree with its efficacy in this manner is another discussion.

I would love to have the latest DSM -5 but it's out of my price range. http://www.amazon.com/Diagnostic-Statistical-Manual-Disorders-Edition/dp/0890425558/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=KRZ1Q5XAEPJU&coliid=I4A6VJ4057AWK

I would imagine that is very frustrating, and I am sorry I contributed to that frustration.

It's just that I, myself, deal with my own mental health issues and have been combating it for years---Pure O OCD, PTSD, severe Major Depressive Disorder, General Anxiety Disorder, and a Nonspecific Personality Disorder, according to my last in-patient stay at a unit, and it's taken me out of college, out of work, out of my apartment, out from nearly all my relationships---and so when I see a comment such as yours (which truth be told is confusingly put so as to be misconstrued as a complete dismissal of Mental Health and Illness as a legitimate problem or concept) I take it personally---just another person judging me by what they do not understand.

I've seen Schizophrenics, laughing hysterically into a pillow and then attacking a fellow schizophrenic 90 year old black man for calling him a 'Racist ass Smurf', Mania, addicts of all sorts, PTSD episodes----the man bashing doors screaming, punching walls, resulting in the unit being shut down, everyone in their rooms, and that person having to be subdued. He was fine the next morning---calm, collected---although, his knuckles and forehead were fresh with thick and long scabs. He was an ex-gangster, coming to terms with the crimes he had to commit.

The previous night he 'experienced' murder.

I also research and write about Mental Health and Illness since it impacts me so. And I understand you have your own take, and studied it in undergrad 25 years ago, but believe me, what was taught a quarter century ago is vastly different than what is taught now.

This Amazon link is for the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V-- the 5th edition, published in 2013. I highly recommend for you (if you haven't already) go buy it or check it out at a library or find a pdf of it somewhere (or excerpts of it) and see how disparate the 25 year old, 1994, DSM IV (and the DSM IV-TR update from 2000) is from our current understanding of Mental Health and Illness in the 2013 DSM V.

And even then, that one is 6 years old and is in need of an update.

Anywho, if I may offer an alternative to your approach at giving your takes on Mental Health (or really any subject, really): do not presume an authority over the subject matter but instead present it as your own personal take while allowing the room and welcoming the possibilities of further understanding the subject from its responses; since, just like you say, 'You don't who I am. I could know nothing, or be sharing a really different and valuable perspective', so in that line of thinking, it's reasonable to assume you don't know them either and you might learn something too.

Sorry - the DSM is purple.
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they must have updated it because it was out 30 years ago. hmmm about the same size and weight as the DSM, also updated. The Yam book is not exactly specific to recording. Much of it is PA- live sound, yah? Probably be better off reading the Ableton manual (?) - unless you want to know how to do room coverage and aim line arrays.

The only thing I would recommend is current textbooks. Books aimed at layman people are easier to digest but aren't exactly accurate.

Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology is pretty good. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition lists out exactly what criteria is to be considered, and specifies categories.

1. The most expensive thing on my list is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5(TM)).
   
2. I've always been fascinated with psychology, and might take this direction with my career. It makes interesting reading material, even if I don't end up being a psychologist, exactly. I love getting into people's minds and learning to understand them, as well as myself. Psychology is one way to do it, and the only concrete way that's worked for me so far.
   
3. I might have to get this item anyway, if it's required somewhere along the line. It would be a shame, though, if I didn't get one in fifteen years and didn't keep up with it till the sixth edition. Anyway.
   
   "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!

Brain soap

A copy of the DSM 5 (if they don't already have it)

Freudian slip sticky notes

A famous/important psychology book like one of these

Psychology Today magazine subscription

American Psychological Association membership

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Well, I don't do a ton of crafty stuff, but here is a tree made from seashells. It may not be super awesome, but it means a lot to me.

My ring size....depending on the finger varies from 7 to an 8. I'd just say probably around a 7.5 US.

This manual as lame as it is, would completely make my year...it's the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for mental health disorders, and I'm going to need to purchase it for my job. I love mental health and all related, so yep!

This is really sad. Never expected reactions like this. So this you people make of someone who's taking evening classes in college, while working a full time job, to help other people resolve their problems for a living. Why drives you people to make these things up? You've never even heard of of the DSM, you clearly have no idea. There is not a single case study of a person who has been depressed all of his or her life. How can you be so dumb to think someone could live that long? Words and meanings can be so difficult.

There are many people however who go in and out of depressions, it always goes away. If you ever feel safe enough to go talk to a psychologist or psychiatrist, it will be one of the first things they tell you. It is supposed to comfort you in the knowledge that it will pass. The work you do is to ensure you don't fall back in that hole. Luckily they don't make this stuff up, it's based on empirical research and NOT your imaginations or your personal, misinterpreted experiences.

Even daddy Google could teach you these basics, really sad to read such pettiness. For your convenience, here's a link to the latest edition of the DSM. Though I'm afraid it does fall out of the price range of the average teenager. And the words will be difficult and meaningful. https://www.amazon.com/Diagnostic-Statistical-Manual-Mental-Disorders/dp/0890425558

In truth there is no single bright border line. But many psychologists use checklists of diagnostic criteria in books like The DSM. This makes it possible to categorize people with at least some consistency.

If a patient meets, for example, at least 5 of 7 listed criteria for a specific listed disorder, they are considered to have that disorder.