Assignment:Video Role-Play: Strengths and Weaknesses of the DSM-5Though the DSM-5 is the standard manual for mental illness diagnoses, it is not without weakness. In this Assignment, you analyze the strengths and limitations of the DSM-5 diagnostic system, and you differentiate between normal behavior and diagnosable symptoms using the concepts of dimensionality and spectrum.To prepare: Review the concept of the dimensional approach with the DSM-5 and review the methods that the DSM-5 recommends to individualize where a person fits on a continuum of their illness in terms of subtypes, severity, and functional impairments. You will find these classifications in different parts of the manual and begin to be comfortable looking through it.Next, imagine the following scenario:You are a school social worker who has been asked to address a parent-teacher association meeting. Many parents in the audience have children who have been identified for special education services. They are confused about how to understand the diagnoses they are seeing. Others have worries about overdiagnosis. You have been advised that while these parents are generally well-informed, many don’t understand the dimensional or spectrum aspects. All are worried.You will start your video with your introductory talk to the parents on these factors. After you provide your explanation, imagine that you open the meeting to questions. You will address the question noted below that is posed by a parent in the audience. Consider your audience, and practice explaining in terms a non-professional might understand. Do NOT read from the book.Review the questions (in the Assignment instructions below) ahead of time and plan your answer before recording, as you will need to look up and integrate materials to answer the chosen question.By Day 7Submit a 3- to 5-minute video, considering the parents as your audience, in which you do the following:Briefly describe what the DSM-5 is and how it is organized. In your description, define the concepts of spectrum and dimensionality as explained by Paris and in the DSM-5 introduction.Explain why social workers and mental health professionals use diagnoses and what receiving a diagnosis means (and does not mean).Explain general concerns about the risks of overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis versus not diagnosing. Also explain how diagnosis is connected to services.Explain other details that might help your audience understand the strengths and weaknesses of the diagnostic system.Provide a response to the following parental questions:My teenager’s best friend died by suicide this year. It’s been months, and she doesn’t seem over it. Her teachers tell me she should get help for depression, but I think it’s just grief. She talks about her friend all the time and gets very upset. I am worried about her. Is it normal for her to still be feeling this way? I don’t want to put her on medication for normal feelings. What is the difference between grief and depression?

For this Assignment, you will review a policy that has been selected for you and consider how the policy addresses or does not address the social problem that inspired it.To Prepare:Review Chapter 7 of the Jansson text as needed. Review the assigned Georgia voting policy, Election Integrity Act of 2021, from the Learning Resources this week. You will use this policy to familiarize yourself with the structure of policy documents and the process for policy analysis—an important foundation before you begin your own policy search. Next week, you will select a local or state policy related to the social problem you identified. Review the Policy Selection Process document in the Learning Resources this week. This document outlines the search for and selection of the Election Integrity Act of 2021—you will need to follow a similar process for your own region or state to complete your Assignment next week. Identify the social problem(s) addressed in the policy. Select an excerpt from the policy that you would change—this could be a small change, like an addition, or a large change, like a complete revision or removal—to better alleviate the social problem.Georgia General Assembly. (2021). SB 202: Election Integrity Act of 2021. https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/59827Submit a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following: Describe the social problem(s) addressed in the policy. Which areas in the policy indicated the social problem(s) to you? Why, as a social worker, should you be concerned with the problem(s)? Are there other problem(s) not directly identified that might be impacted, positively or adversely, by the policy? Which population(s) is/are impacted by the problem? What is the relationship between the social problem(s) and the population(s)? In other words, why are some people impacted by the problem(s) when others are not? How is/are the population(s) taken into consideration in the policy? Summarize the excerpt from the policy that you identified as needing change. What are the strengths of this excerpt in helping to alleviate the social problem? If you do not see any strengths, that is okay—explain why. What are the limitations of this excerpt in helping to alleviate the social problem(s) for the population(s)? What specific changes would you make to the excerpt to alleviate the social problem(s) for the population(s)? You can describe the changes or quote direct policy language you would change.