Strength-Based Diagnosis: What the Heck is this and How do I do it?

Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW  

Training Description

Strength-based, strength-based, strength-based!  Wow, this seems to be an important mantra in our field!  This is NOT a training on how to use the DSM 5 and, since all of us diagnose in our own ways, I hope that anyone working with youth and their families will attend (this is not only for clinicians)!  This training is about how we can remain strength-based when we have to use pathologizing and stigmatizing labels in order to get paid.  While I hope that we are all advocating (in our own ways) for important changes in our field that will allow us to be more strength-based and client-directed, what do we do NOW?  This training is meant to help us see the difference between DSM disorders and actual diagnosis and how they go together; the significant importance of diagnosis and how we can do it; and,…