Category : E-Books
Author : RandyW.
Kamphaus & Jonathan M. Campbell
Publisher : WILEY
Year : 2006
Page : 554
Language :
English
File Type : Pdf
Size : 2,320
KB
Review :
The process of making a diagnosis of a mental disorder is one of the principal
duties of psychologists and psychiatrists, a duty and right preserved in
numerous statutes governing the practice of medical and allied health
professions. Psychologists, however, face the process of diagnosis conflicted,
due to a chasm between two diagnostic traditions; the psychiatric and the
psychometric. This text is intended to help psychologists, and psychiatric
physicians, bridge this chasm in order to make
diagnoses that are theoretically
and empirically defensible and ultimately more useful for treating patients and
conducting research. The psychiatric and psychometric traditions differ in
their most basic assumptions beginning at the level of definition. Diagnosis,
for example, may be defined as, “The process of determining the nature of a
disease etc.; the identification of a disease from a patient’s symptoms etc.; a
formal statement of this” (Simpson & Weiner, 1989). The psychometrician, on
the other hand, often refers to the similar process of classification, where to
classify may be defined as, “Arrange in classes; assign to a class” (Simpson
& Weiner, 1989).
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