Proportionate responses to life events influence clinicians' judgments of psychological abnormality

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 581-591

  Kim, Nancy S ^a   Paulus, Daniel J ^a   Gonzalez, Jeffrey S ^b   Khalife, Danielle ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Causal reasoning; Clinical judgments; Explanation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAUSAL REASONING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DSM-IV-TR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84874402364     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026416     Document Type: Article

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