{"id":44960,"date":"2022-02-23T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=44960"},"modified":"2022-02-23T03:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:01:03","slug":"what-to-do-with-a-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=44960","title":{"rendered":"What to Do with a Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: This week&rsquo;s mini-series on the Grace and Truth Blog focuses on understanding the DSM and its categories from a biblical worldview. In this second article, Howard Eyrich addresses what to do with a diagnosis brought by a counselee. In other contributions to the series, Nate Brooks provides an overview of the purpose, usefulness, and limitations of the DSM&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2022\/02\/23\/what-to-do-with-a-diagnosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few minutes of building involvement, I said to Charles, \u201cI noted on your PDI that someone has given you a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Would you be willing to tell me who gave you that diagnosis and when the diagnosis was made?\u201d With a bit of an ironic smile, Charles responded, \u201cWell, uh, well, let me put it this way, it was Dr. Google.\u201d This is becoming a frequent phenomenon. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":44962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[114,4696,4695,4709,4710,708,837],"class_list":["post-44960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-depression","tag-diagnosis","tag-dsm","tag-dsm-5-diagnostic-labels","tag-label","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-sufficiency-of-scripture","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-16.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44963,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44960\/revisions\/44963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}