Please explain how a psychologist’s subjectivity and biases may affect their conception of the mental state and health of patients, and how this may affect the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
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Psychologists interpret an individual’s mental health as well as mental illness through their own view and beliefs. In three separate studies done by Ahn, Proctor and Flanagan (2010) final results indicated that psychologist’s beliefs about environmental, biological and psychological bases of the DSM-IV-TR mental disorders affected their judgment for treating the client. Study 1 indicated that psychologist’s beliefs are interpreted along a single continuum from non-biological disorders such as adjustment disorder to autistic disorder which is considered a highly …
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