Gender acts as a context for interpreting diagnostic criteria

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1485-1498

  Flanagan, Elizabeth H ^a,c   Blashfield, Roger K ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case vignettes; Clinicians; Diagnosis; Gender bias; Personality disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENDER; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGIST; SEX DIFFERENCE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30544454221     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: 10974679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20202     Document Type: Article

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