Clinical diagn0sis is one of repeated questions. It includes:
1. Clinical interview
2. Behaviouriol asesment
3. Intelgns asesmnt
4. Mental status exam
5. Neuropsyklogkl asesmet.
Plz share any resource on it dealing it as a whole. The material is found in pieces.

Clinical diagnoses is mixture of all these or you can say that these are strategies to find out diagnosis. So u always find these separately instead of any case history, might be that give you full information at one place. We take Behavioral assessment, clinical interview n mental status examination in intake and intelligence and neuro psychological assessment are the part of testing phase, By the result of all these we get clinical diagnosis.

Dont miss DSM IV TR in clinical diagnosis

Seniors plz help me in this topic....plz giv short outline regarding clinical diagnosis ...some past qs regardng this are givn below....:
2010. Explain the concept of abnormality. Briefly describe the goals of clinical diagnosis and write about either personality or behavioral assessment.
2009: list the different types of assessment procedures\tools used for clinical diagnosis and explain the significance of clinical judgment in the process of assessment.
2006 Describe the criteria that can be used to distinguish between "normal" and "abnormal" behavior. What are the different sources of information that you will recommend for clinical diagnosis?
2005. Describe the potential, sources of information on which Reliable Clinical Diagnosis can be based.
URGENT HELP...!

There are several definitions of abnormality, each having its own flaws. None is perfect or universally accepted.
1:
deviation from normality is abnormality.
limitation: if corruption is normality in a society, is being fair abnormality??
2:
lake of ability to adjust is abnormality.
Limitation: one can adjust easily in one's own society but.... so....
3:
Psychological health and mental illness...
Limitation: how to know who is psychologically unhealthy??

Interview
Observation
Different tests etc...
Clinical judgement leads to right diagnosis and only right diagnosis can lead to right treatment.

The points discussed under definition of abnormality can be discussed here...

DSM IV is a reliable source of information for a clinical diagnosis.
But for some culturally biased disorders one have to look for one's culture and norms...

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