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Interactive Workshop

Teaching Methods and Learning Styles

Session: Moving toward decolonized practice of assessment and diagnosis in MSW curriculum: "Psychopathology" no more!

Moving Toward Decolonized Practice of Assessment and Diagnosis in MSW Curriculum

Saturday, October 26, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2103C
Earn 1 CE Hour
Participants will learn strategies for revamping clinical assessment and diagnostic curriculum that better aligns with social work values and de-centers the medical model, in favor of a more decolonized and holistic approach. We will engage in discussion and practice of alternative assessment models, and identify strategies for incorporation into curriculum.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Critique the value of the DSM as an assessment tool, and learn about efforts for alternative diagnostic classification systems and progress towards their development and utilization.
  2. Identify strategies for clinical assessment that are more in line with our social work professional values than the DSM, and how to incorporate them into your curriculum and practice
  3. Develop strategies for supporting decolonized approaches for mental health assessment within your courses and community, and collective efforts that we as social workers can undertake to ensure an assessment and diagnostic practice that minimizes medicalization and individualization of mental illness, calling for greater recognition of systemic causes of individual distress