Template talk:Psychotherapy and history

Issues with template as at 10 March 2010
The current template needs to be more comprehensive, systematic, hierarchical and accurate.

Its inclusion of "history" (a sub-category of psychiatric assessment) 'under-accommodates' a large multidisciplinary body of work that deserves a template of its own: Mental assessment and diagnonsis or something similar. It could cover processes (history taking, medical testing, psychological assessment, diagnosis), techniques (psychiatric examination, psychometry, laboratory testing, etc), disciplines (medicine, psychiatry, psychology, social work, occupational therapy, auxiliary, etc), tools (DSM, ECG, MSE, etc) controversies (labelling, medical model, pseudoscience, etc)

This edit uses a structural layout similar to those of other templates (psychology, psychiatry) and a taxonomy consistent with the schools of thought in academic psychiatry1 and psychology2.

1. Sadock et al. (2009). Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. (Vols I and II). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2. Corsini, et al (2007). Current psychotherapies. Wadsworth.--Suidafrikaan (talk) 10:11, 10 April 2010 (UTC)