Reviews research pertinent to charges that clinicians' judgments are biased against minority
and counternormative persons. Evaluative prejudice is found to be a more circumscribed …

Examined the influence of patient and clinician values on clinical judgment, using 363
clinical psychologists. Ss each rated 2 case histories. One case had been altered to reflect 1 …

This volume is addressed to professionals and students in community mental health-
including researchers, clinicians, administrators, educa tors, and students in relevant …

Mental health clinicians, like the public, are ambivalent toward the mentally ill. Cultural
biases contribute to the negative side of this ambivalence, while the ethic of professional …

This study examined the impact certain patient and therapist attitudes and characteristics
have on a patient's dropping out of therapy prematurely. The four hypotheses tested were:(1) …

The adherence of a community mental health center staff to community mental health
ideology was measured by the Baker‐Schulberg CMHI Scale. The results were essentially …

IMPLICATIONS The major finding of the current study is that Therapeutic Optimism, client
oraisa and Worker 0ptimism are character-istics that vary among clinical social workers …

Abstract A total of 425 nurses (28%) randomly selected from the American Nurses
Association, responded to a questonnaire sent to 1500 nurses. The sample consisted of 116 …

In contrast to historical pathogenic social constructions of families as bad/immoral people
and causal agents, recent mental health practice literature portrays families as co-victims of …

A brief report of the attitudes of therapists towards psychiatric outpatients, varying in
socioeconomic background, insight levels and degrees of disturbances, is presented …