A gender-sensitive approach to DSMs categorization of mental ...

[bclement10]

A gender-sensitive approach to DSMs categorization of mental disorders might ask:
 
  a. where is the macho personality disorder predominantly seen in men?
  b. how come more women did not serve on the DSM task force?
  c. why are male exaggerated traits treated as pathological?
  d. when will women be able to make psychiatric diagnoses?

Question 2

Feminist therapists regard constructs and terms such as psychopathology as:
 
  a. useful in theory development.
  b. preferred over such terms as distress and pain which make women appear more vulnerable.
  c. problematic because they locate the problem in the individual.
  d. acceptable if they include the social and political.

[steff9894]

Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C

[bclement10]

Thank you!

[steff9894]

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