Biases in a Clinical Setting

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Psychology

 

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Guillermo D

 

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December 5, 2015

 

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University

 

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A

 

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6 / 1452

 

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Even with the lack of enough information being obtained, a clinician may come to a conclusion and state his or her opinion. By utilizing such a minimal amount of information to assess one's behavior, an inaccurate diagnosis may be the result. One reason that increases the making inaccurate judgments is that mental health professionals tend to utilize heuristics...
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Heuristics allow us to make quick judgments, invent explanations, and form impressions about people by utilizing our previous experiences as a baseline. (Myers, 2008, p. 90) As memory is influenced by familiarity, a mental health professional may recall the same specific behaviors that they have seen previously in patients and apply such explanations of their behavior to that of the new patient that may have just been brought in for assessment...
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