Religious issues in diagnosis

The V-Code and beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID19504184
AuthorsStacey Scott (0000-0002-7060-4964), Stacey Y Scott (Regent University), Stacy Garver (Regent University), Julie Richards (0000-0002-7037-4177, Regent University), William L Hathaway (0000-0001-8227-781X, Regent University)
Year2003
Volume6
Issue2
Pages161-173
Publication date2003-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMental Health Religion & Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-4676 • E-ISSN: 1469-9737
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1367467021000038200
OpenAlexW2045077780
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This paper addresses the issues around considering clients' religious and spiritual functioning as a matter of client diversity. Such issues may be under appreciated by many clinicians. The introduction of a religious and spiritual problem V-Code (V62.89) into the DSM-IV provided a significant accommodation of client religious and spiritual functioning in contemporary psychodiagnostics. The V-Code allows for explicit identification of a non-pathological religious or spiritual focus in treatment. The nature of and history of the V-Code's inclusion in DSM-IV is briefly reviewed. The strengths and limitations of the V-Code for raising clinician awareness of the religious and spiritual domain of client functioning is discussed and illustrated by a number of case examples. The V-Code approach is contrasted with Hathaway's (2003) clinically significant religious impairment concept. Both are viewed as making complementary contributions to a religiously and spiritually sensitive clinical practice

Accommodation · Spirituality · Computer Science · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology

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