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Mental health practitioners have long recognized the failure of the DSM to address important sources of strength and resiliency that can significantly affect diagnosis and treatment, a deficit that has become more pronounced with the DSM-5's elimination of the multiaxial format. The second edition of Strengthening the DSM presents a new conceptual framework - the Diversity/Resiliency Formulation - that encompasses the whole person in order to promote effective diagnosis and treatment. It considers patient strengths, sources of resilience, support, and cultural identity that are essential to an

Mental illness --- Psychiatric rating scales. --- Cultural pluralism. --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Psychiatric status rating scales --- Rating scales, Psychiatric --- Scales, Psychiatric rating --- Scales, Rating (Psychiatry) --- Psychodiagnostics --- Psychiatric diagnosis --- Diagnosis. --- Treatment --- Evaluation