A diagnostic axis relevant to psychotherapy and preventive mental health.
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
- Vol. 53 (4), 677-696
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1983.tb03411.x
Abstract
Concepts commonly useful to therapists in deciding upon the direction of psychotherapy are collated into a diagnostic axis, using the language of skills. It is argued that this skills axis has more therapeutic relevance than a symptom-cluster scheme, is less pejorative than personality disorder labels, lends itself to scientific grounding, would promote clarity in outcome research, and could be usefully applied to preventive mental health.Keywords
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