HSS 3103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Overdiagnosis, Clinical Formulation, Stereotype
10 Oct 2017
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Olkin chapter 9: interviews, assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis: treatment plan: Interviewing and the mental status exam i: diagnosis, including the problems of overshadowing and the restricting of diagnostic categories, testing (ie. choice of tests, modi cations, and interpretation of tests, interviewing and the mental status exam. Clinical interview and how it may be shaped by the disability status of the client: How presumptions about disability can distort the process of asking questions and interpreting answers (distortion and bias, omitting questions, restricted range of answers, pre question questions, and rewording clients) The effects of physical appearance on the mse and our judgement about our clients. The clinician"s response to aspects of clients that are unfamiliar and anxiety provoking (fear-shock-paralysis-withdrawl) Three different mechanisms by which disability in uences interviews: distortions in interviewing, the effects of client appearance on the clinician, clinician"s responses to clients with disabilities, diagnosis issues.
