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Petition concerning the revision of the diagnostic manual DSM-4

The diagnostic manual

DSM-4 is used in psychiatry world-wide. It is currently being revised and the planned revision, DSM-5, will rely, even more than DSM-4, on incomplete, biology-based models of reality, upgrading partial operationalizations of the biological complexities to 'truths'.

Modern encompassing biological textbooks (e.g. György Buzsáki, Rhythms of the Brain, Oxford University Press, 2006) acknowledge the continuous reciprocal influence between brains and environment, at all levels of reality. DSM 5 should not omit this central aspect.

The American Psychological Association, division 32, has therefore written a letter of protest to the board of editors of DSM-5 and circulated a petition for anyone interested to co-sign the letter.

Most people with an interest in pre-therapy will probably agree with the letter, and wish to co-sign it. The link to the petition can therefore be found below.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dsm5/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=button

The diagnostic manual DSM-4 is used in psychiatry world-wide. It is currently being revised

New course in Person-Centred Work at the Difficult Edge

This new course is being offered in the UK at the Metanoia Institute and includes a workshop on Pre-Therapy by Network member Dion Van Werde.

residential psychiatric milieu treatment with elderly

Person-centered work and Pre-Therapy contact work in residential psychiatric milieu treatment with elderly

residential psychiatric milieu treatment with elderly

Written by Paul Dierick

Monday, 04 April 2011 15:05

Person-centered work and Pre-Therapy contact work in residential psychiatric milieu treatment with elderly

In this article, attention is first directed to milieu therapy as it may be elaborated upon in working with people of old age in a psychiatric hospital. Based on the work of Marlis Pörtner (1998; 2008), this contribution centers on a description of how a person-centered approach might be applied within this milieu therapeutic framework. This description is guided by the familiar therapeutic relational core conditions from the client-centered approach. Finally, Pre-Therapy contact work (Prouty, Van Werde, & Pörtner, 2001; Sanders, 2007) and its application in this setting are considered.

This article was first published in the Dutch journal on client-centered psychotherapy (Tijdschrift Cliëntgerichte Psychotherapie 2010, volume 48, nr. 4), where it is part of a special issue on (client-centered) psychotherapy with elderly people. Together with other articles of this journal it can also be consulted via the website www.tcgp.nl. This website contains an 'English site section' where - in English - all contributions and their summaries can be found" (Full text is only in the original Dutch language available).

Dit artikel werd eerst gepubliceerd in het Tijdschrift Cliëntgerichte Psychotherapie (2010, jaargang 48, nr. 4), waar het deel uit maakt van een themanummer over (cliëntgerichte) psychotherapie met ouderen. Samen met andere artikelen uit dit tijdschrift kan het eveneens geconsulteerd worden via de website www.tcgp.nl. (De volledige tekst wordt daar enige tijd na publicatie ter beschikking gesteld).

Keywords: person-centered work, therapy and care, with and for the elderly, Pre-Therapy, (Pre-Therapy) contact work, gerontopsychiatry/geriatric psychiatry, milieu therapy

For a complete reference list of Pre-Therapy and Contact Work, see http://www.pre-therapy.com/index.php/references