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A FAMILY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF DSM‐111‐R
Author(s) -
Denton Wayne
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1990.tb00832.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , psychotherapist , psychology , family systems , family systems theory , clinical psychology , developmental psychology
It is proposed that one reason family therapist do not find DSM‐III‐R more useful is that the implicit scientific paradigms of DSM‐III‐R and family therapy are incompatible. Family therapy is identified with the assumptions of general systems theory, while DSM‐III‐R is identified with the assumptions of the medical or objective/descriptive model. An essential difference between DSM‐III‐R and family therapy is that DSM‐III‐R views symptoms as arising from processes occurring within individuals, while family therapy views symptoms as arising from processes occurring within gamily systems. Alternative approaches to classification are suggested which would be more compatible with the approach of family therapy.