Brief Report: A Counselling-Friendly Alternative to the DSM-5? A Review of The Power Threat Meaning Framework

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  • Tom Strong University of Calgary

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The British Psychological Society’s Clinical Division (2018) recently published The Power Threat Meaning Framework, an evidence-supported discussion document to promote consideration of alternatives to functional psychiatric diagnosis. I summarize the general content and approach of the framework as a meaning-focused alternative to the psychiatric classification system, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – Fifth Edition (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). I comment on the utility of the Power Threat Meaning Framework for the conversational practice of a nonmedicalized approach to counselling.

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    Tom Strong is a Professor, couple and family therapist, and counsellor-educator at the University of Calgary who researches and writes on the collaborative, critically-informed and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy. For more details on Tom and his research please consult: http://www.ucalgary.ca/strongt

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2019-05-02

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##issue.vol## 53 ##issue.no## 3 (2019): Regular Issue

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Brief Report/ Rapport sommaire

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Copyright is retained by the Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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Brief Report: A Counselling-Friendly Alternative to the DSM-5? A Review of The Power Threat Meaning Framework. (2019). Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 53(3), 296-302. https://dev.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/rcc/article/view/61247