PSYCH230 Lecture 17: Fall 2015
7 Aug 2016
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4 criteria for clinical expertise: agree amongst themselves. Not perfect alignment but agreement: accurate, differ from non-professionals. Should be accurate in coparison to other people. Not anyone can walk off the street and make same diagnosis: make use of specialized procedures. Clinicians: had low levels of agreement amongst themselves, weighted information similarly to teachers. Greater importance to certain things, but not using any kind of specialized procedures: affected more by offense descriptions and offender history than by the assessment data (same as teachers). 9 clinicians completed an assessment questionnaire for 200 remanded men: agreement on treatability, dangerousness and recommendations was moderate, no consensus for type of treatment. Ok well at least the previous things were agreed upon but . Questionairres were completed immediately after 60 interdisciplinary case conferences involving extensive group discussion. Completed questionairres immediately after group discussion and still didn"t agree. Keep in mind this is very difficult work.
