Clinical judgment : a study of clinical error /

"This book surveys the entire field of clinical judgment, evaluating the factors which determine the validity of clinical judgments. A chapter on Pseudo-clinical judgments describes common types of false judgments. The whole area of clinical judgment is reevaluated in terms of diagnostic proces...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thorne, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), 1909-1978 (Author)
Corporate Author:	American Psychological Association
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Brandon, VT : Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1961.
Series:	PsychBooks Collection
Subjects:	Psychiatry > Case studies. Clinical psychology. Mental illness. Case Reports Psychiatry Psychology, Clinical Mental Disorders Psychologie clinique. Maladies mentales. mental disorders. Clinical psychology Electronic books. Case studies
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The nature of clinical judgment
Pseudo-clinical judgments
Clinical judgment as diagnosis
The clinician as a clinical instrument
Problems of case handling
The evidence gathering process
Processing objective data
Problems of relationships
Specific clinical problems
Defensiveness among clinicians.