PSychology

• Biases in Diagnosis


  Criteria B
• Main groups of biases

  • Clinician variables
  • Patient variables
  • Cultural factors
• Clinician variables


  • Biases attributed to the clinician
  • Attitudes and beliefs
  • Abilities
  • Cognitive biases
• Patient variables


  • Biases attributed to the patient/client
  • Reporting bias
  • Somatisation
  • Expression of symptoms
• Somatisation is when participants report psychological disturbances in the form of physical ailments
• Somatisation seems to be the case in a lot of Asian countries where mental illnesses still carry a lot of stigma
• Different cultures may have different manifestations of the same disorder
• The DSM was criticised for not taking cultural factors into account