PSY240H5 Chapter 4: Chapter 4-Abnormal Psych.doc
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Chapter 4: and the possible causes of the those symptoms: assessment if the process of gathering information about people"s symptoms, a diagnosis is a label attached to a set of symptoms that tend to occur together, having a standardized system of diagnosis is crucial to communication among mental health professionals and to good research of psychological problems, clinicians must agree on what diagnostic labels mean. Interview may be unstructured, with only a few open ended questions: clinicians listens to client"s answers and observes how the client answers, pays attention to her body language and responses to obtain nonverbal indicators of what is bothering him/her, or uses a structured interview asks the respondent a series of questions about symptoms he or she is experiencing or has experienced in the past, format of the questions and the entire interview is highly structured and standardized, limitations, resistance on the part of the client who is being, cognitive, symptom and personality tests interviewed.
