Tag: #diagnosis

2 essays

October 3, 2008

Differences between Clinicians with Different Levels of Experience

The study of Hillerbrand and Claiborn is a 2 (level of expertise)x3 (levels of problem structure) design. 17 expert and 15 novice psychologists with good diagnostic abilities read well structured, ill structured or random structured cases. Consistency of the relevance of the information supplied varied between the cases. Relevance was the extend to which information […]

April 1, 2008

Unaided Categorical Psychodiagnosis is not Coherent with Normative Models

Normative models require the data to be linear. Each case should be weighted linearly and combined additively. That is certainly not the case in clinical settings. Not all therapists have clear guidelines for themselves on what to base a categorical decision. When comparing the data at hand they rely on statistical models that are fallible. […]