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Exploring Diagnoses

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This course explores what diagnoses are, the classification systems used by professionals, the prevalence of several diagnoses and how experiences often occur on a spectrum. Additionally, this course looks at the impact of receiving a diagnosis, the stigma surrounding diagnoses and the controversies around some diagnoses. Lastly, this course considers a few possibilities for alternatives to the current diagnostic systems. 

This course will take approximately 40 to 70 minutes to complete, but this timing will depend on how fast you read and how long you spend on the activities and reflective questions. You do not need to complete the whole course in one go. If you leave and come back to the course it will remember where you got up to.