Heterogeneity in Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification
Heterogeneity in Psychiatric Diagnostic Classificationr r u201cA pragmatic approach to psychiatric assessment, allowing for recognition of individual experience, may therefore be a more effective way of understanding distress than maintaining commitment to a disingenuous categorical system.u201dr r -tTranslationr -tListen to what they have to say about their thoughts and feelings.r -tr -tThen, the unrecognized and overwhelming number of individuals who have the developmental disabilities of FASD might be heard.r r r Ashley Smith; born, New Brunswick, 29th. January, 1988;u2028 died alone, by her own hand, in isolation at the Grand Valley Institution for Women, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. 19th. October, 2007. r r u201cShe [Ashley Smith] had indicated to the staff that she was bored and was looking for attention and she wanted staff to enter into her cell so that she could fight with themu201d-r u2010u2028Ms. Grafton, Security Intelligence Officer, Grand Valley Institution for Women, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. r r u201cMy life I no longer loveu2028 Iu2019d rather be set free aboveu2028r Get it over with while the time is rightu2028 Late some rainy nightu2028r Turn black as the night and cold as the sea Say goodbye to Ashleyu2028r Miss me but donu2019t be sadu2028r Iu2019m free, where I want to beu2028 r No more caged up Ashleyu2028 Wishing I were freeu2028r Free like a birdu201dr -From the Ashley Smith Report, New Brunswick Ombudsman and Child and Youth Advocate, r June 2008.
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