An Educational Alternative to the Medical Model of Mental Health
An Educational Alternative to the Medical Model of Mental Health Researchers propose a model of addressing mental health issues or “problems of living” as an alternative to the psychiatric medical model. The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, which has published high-profile challenges to psychiatric diagnosis, recently republished seminal articles for its 60 th-anniversary. The issue aimed to spark renewed scholarship that challenges the current paradigm in psychiatry and clinical psychology as well as research on alternatives to the current paradigm. The issue features, “The Solving P...