Recent research has turned up some rather puzzling fmdings. For example, in California a
child's" failure" on the school psychologist's IQ test does not insure a diagnosis of" mental …

Proposes a model for inferential accuracy in clinical judgment which hypothesizes 2 major
processes, sensitivity and threshold. Sensitivity is defined as an awareness of underlying …

In a study designed to test for sex-and race-related bias in psychiatric diagnosis, the
responses of 173 mental health professionals to four hypothetical patient profiles were …

EFFECTS OF CLIENT RACE ON CLINICAL JUDGMENT Contents 1.TABLE 1 Mean Ratings
of the Client in the African American and White Client Conditions After Presentation of Minimal …

The expectations and preferences of 26 White and 8 Black male veterans for the race of their
counselor were investigated at the time the clients entered treatment in a midwestern …

This study makes an attempt to explore attitudes of neurotic patients inferred from the nature
of the chief presenting complaint, attitudes of neurotic patients inferred from source and …

This study examined the public's confidence in clinical psychologists, psychiatrisis, master's-
level counselors, doctoral-level counselors, and social workers by ranking confidence levels …

Abstract" The study reported here involves the application of opinion sampling methods to
public attitudes toward mental health professions." The following titles were employed …

To determine the reasons for previously reported greater satisfaction of defendants and
observers with adversary vs single investigator inquisitorial procedures, 93 undergraduate …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes some of the striking results of application of
social judgment theory (SJT) to medical judgment. Clinical judgment traditionally has been …