Debate: Conduct disorder, like all psychiatric diagnoses, is not a diagnosis.
Conduct disorder
parenting
psychotherapy
social psychiatry
Journal
Child and adolescent mental health
ISSN: 1475-357X
Titre abrégé: Child Adolesc Ment Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101142157
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2022
09 2022
Historique:
accepted:
20
06
2022
pubmed:
19
7
2022
medline:
18
8
2022
entrez:
18
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Like all psychiatric diagnoses, conduct disorder (CD) relies on entirely subjective foundations. Without empirical anchors, we are left with descriptors that cannot help us identify cases that share universalisable commonalities beyond those imposed on them by the subjectivity of the diagnoser. This article highlights how mistaking a descriptive category for a diagnosis has resulted in, including for CD, a failure to improve scientific knowledge or clinical outcomes. For progress to occur the dominance of a technical diagnostic paradigm in psychiatry must be over-turned and CD will then lie on the slag heap of history alongside the other consumable brands mis-labelled as a psychiatric diagnosis.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
300-301Informations de copyright
© 2022 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
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