Psychology

Se parte de la redefinición del diseño tecnopedagógico donde se concretan los usos que finalmente profesores y alumnos hacen de las TIC y se hace o no realidad el potencial que encierran estas tecnologías para facilitar y promover el aprendizaje y mejorar la enseñanza. De ambas cosas, de diseños tecnopedagógicos cargados de potencial para innovar y mejorar los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, y de interpretaciones y recreaciones que consiguen extraer de estos diseños su potencial transformador e innovador, el libro coordinado por Frida Díaz Barriga, Gerardo Hernández y Marco Antonio Rigo ofrece numerosos e interesantes ejemplos cargados de implicaciones prácticas.

Objective: To explore the rationales ofmental health professionals (mainly psychiatrists and psychologists)
from 8 countries for removing specific diagnostic categories frommental disorders classification
systems. Method: As part of a larger study, 505 participants indicated which of 60 major disorders
should be omitted from mental disorders classification systems and provided rationales. Rationale
statements were analyzed using inductive content analysis. Results: The majority of clinicians
(60.4%) indicated that 1 or more disorders should be removed. The most common rationales were
(a) problematic boundaries between normal and psychopathological conditions (45.9% of total removal
recommendations), (b) problematic boundaries among mental disorders (25.4%), and (c) problematic
boundaries between mental and physical disorders (24.0%). The categories most frequently recommended
for deletion were gender identity disorder, sexual dysfunction, and paraphilias, usually because
clinicians viewed these categories as being based on stigmatization of a way of being and behaving.
A range of neurocognitive disorders were described as better conceptualized as nonpsychiatric medical
conditions. Results were analyzed by country and country income level. Although gender identity
disorder was the category most frequently recommended for removal overall, clinicians from Spain,
India, and Mexico were most likely to do so and clinicians from Nigeria and Japan least likely, probably
because of social and systemic factors that vary by country. Systematic differences in removal
rationales by country income level may be related to the development, structure, and functioning of
health systems. Conclusion: Implications for development and dissemination of the classification of mental and behavioral disorders in WHO’s ICD-11 are discussed. C⃝ 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
The World Health Organization retains copyright and all other rights in the manuscript of this article as
submitted for publication. J. Clin. Psychol. 71:267–281, 2015.