A Brief Feedback Intervention for Diagnostic Overshadowing

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 218-225

  Wood, David S ^a   Tracey, Terence J G ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical decision making; diagnostic overshadowing; feedback; psychodiagnosis; training in professional psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949597635     PISSN: 19313918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016577     Document Type: Article

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