Assignment Task:
Critical Essay: Is a psychiatric diagnosis helpful?
Evaluate the utility of psychiatric diagnosis based on social, cultural and or political forces behind research and development on diagnosis. To reach a clear conclusion in the debate on psychiatric diagnosis, is it necessary and valuable or unnecessary and not very useful?
Write in a way that persuades the reader to adopt your position and back up with assertions with research evidence.
Restrict your critique to 2-4 points to allow an in-depth analysis of each point.
Focus the essay on either a specific psychiatric diagnosis or a psychiatric diagnosis more generically.