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Clinical judgment : A study of clinical error / Frederick C. Thorne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorne, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), 1909-1978, author.
- Series:
- PsychBooks Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinical psychology.
- Psychiatry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 165 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Clinical judgment
- Place of Publication:
- Brandon : Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1961.
- Summary:
- "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 processes involved in all judgments. The main part of the book consists of a study of clinical errors in which a large sample of clinical psychologists contribute protocols describing actual instances of clinical error"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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