1. Consider how a mental health diagnosis could be beneficial to a client. What might be potential harm from a diagnosis?

2. Why is it important for clinicians, medical doctors, legal professionals, and so on to use a common diagnostic language?

3. Explain why it is an ethical responsibility for clinicians to be knowledgeable about diagnosis.

4. Give examples of how you might utilize a diagnosis when formulating a treatment plan

6. Describe how psychosocial and environmental considerations are now included in

DSM-5.

7. Explore how you can include multicultural considerations into a diagnosis.

8. Discuss the difference between use of subtypes, specifiers, and severity.

10. Discuss the use of other specified or unspecified disorders.

11.Describe how a one-axis system can be used to encapsulate all of the five axes from DSM-IV.

12. Identify a diagnosis from any category that makes you personally feel uncomfortable.

Explore where these feelings come from and how you might go about working with a client who has this diagnosis.