The Business of Diagnosis: DSM-III and Clinical Social Work

Journal Article The Business of Diagnosis: DSM-III and Clinical Social Work Get access Herb Kutchins, Herb Kutchins Herb Kutchins, DSW, is Professor, Division of Social Work, California State University Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. Stuart A. Kirk, DSW, is Acting Provost, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, and Professor, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Albany. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the National Association of Social Workers National Conference on Clinical Social Work, San Francisco, California, September 1986. Partial support for this research came from a faculty research grant at California State University-Sacramento. L. McCormick assisted with data coding and other tasks. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Stuart A. Kirk Stuart A. Kirk Herb Kutchins, DSW, is Professor, Division of Social Work, California State University Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. Stuart A. Kirk, DSW, is Acting Provost, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, and Professor, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Albany. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the National Association of Social Workers National Conference on Clinical Social Work, San Francisco, California, September 1986. Partial support for this research came from a faculty research grant at California State University-Sacramento. L. McCormick assisted with data coding and other tasks. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 33, Issue 3, May-June 1988, Pages 215–220, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/33.3.215 Published: 01 May 1988 Article history Accepted: 15 January 1988 Published: 01 May 1988