Clinical judgment and affective disorders

Addresses 3 limitations of previous work on counselor clinical judgment by the 1st author et al and R. F. Haase et al . Results of the study of 20 practicing counselors suggest that the judgment process used by experienced counselors to make diagnoses of affective disorders differs depending on the type of diagnostic judgment and that attributions may play a role in at least certain types of judgments. (8 ref)