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The assessment of an individual’s subjective dimension of positive mental health or well-being is the focal point of this chapter. For DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013), the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale, which was an important assessment scale in DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association 1994), was removed because of both a lack of clarity (a mixture of symptoms of illness, suicide risk, and disabilities) and poor psychometric properties. Apart from the symptomatic diagnoses of mental disorders and their suicidal risks, DSM-5 now selectively focuses on social health as measured by the World Health Organization (WHO) Disability Assessment Schedule. In other words, the clinician’s assessment of an individual’s well-being regarding positive mental health is lacking in DSM-5. It is not clear why the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) (Ware et al. 1994) was not adopted by DSM-5 as a measure of social, mental, and physical health.
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