Pros And Cons In Labeling

offers a socially accepted reason for failure to cope, especially if all miseries can be pinned on those diseases (Wessely, 2006).

Cons in Labeling

In contrast, Wessely also argued against the act of diagnosis for the most part thrive on the mediating effects of pessimistic illness beliefs on the course of complaints. Diagnosis elicits the belief the patient has a serious disease, leading to symptom focusing that become self-validating and self-reinforcing and that renders worse outcomes (Wessely, 2006). Diagnosis leads to transgression into the sick role, the act of becoming a patient even if complaints do not call for it. The development of an illness identify and the experience of victimization. Meaning, once patients hear the diagnosis

Clinicians base the diagnostic process on the stage of illness and on illness beliefs. The pros of labeling may come into action, bringing relief, acceptance and the preservation of self-esteem to the experience of illness. Ultimately, the balance of benefit and harm that comes from the act of diagnosis can be established by randomized trial (2006). According to Wessely, to answer the question of to label or not, may eventually turn out to depend not on the label, but what that label implies. Social workers offer counseling after diagnosis to help the clients cope with the diagnosis and to provide support (Wessely,

Granting that a correct diagnosis is not guarantee of correct treatment, given the state of the art, diagnosis is important nevertheless because the induced consequences of misdiagnosis can be catastrophic (Harkness, 2011). One of the biggest concerns with diagnosis in clinical social work is misdiagnosis. Failures to diagnose, misdiagnoses and incorrect treatments as among the most frequent malpractice claims filed against social workers. Although most social work malpractice is rarely proven (Harkness, 2011). The National Practitioner Data Bank showed studies that in the nature of the malpractice allegations that led to settlements or judgements were withheld or missing 54 of the 2 clinical social workers, 104 of the 179 valid allegations were diagnosis related to failure to diagnose or wrong or misdiagnosis, and 64 were treatment related, failure to treat, improper management, improper technique, or wrong procedure or treatment. In summary, diagnostic and treatment errors represent 75 of awards for social work practice (Harkness,