Diagnostic Decision Making: Do Counselors Delay Final Judgments? Academic Article

abstract

• Although there is a theoretical, empirical rationale warranting the delay of diagnostic decision making, it is unknown whether this debiasing strategy is actually implemented in counseling practice. This study investigated whether counselors delayed their diagnostic decisions in a setting that allowed them the option of doing so. Clinical records were selected from a counselor training center at a large midwestern university and coded for delayed diagnostic decision making. Three pairs of chisquare analyses were performed. Results indicated that delayed diagnostic decision making occurred to a greater extent than immediate diagnostic decision making across counselorclient dyads, counselors, and clients.

authors

• Ridley, Charles

published proceedings

• Journal of Counseling & Development

author list (cited authors)

• Hill, C. L., & Ridley, C. R.

citation count

• 8

publication date

• January 2001

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

keywords

• 3 Good Health And Well Being
• 52 Psychology
• 5203 Clinical And Health Psychology
• Clinical Research

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2001.tb01948.x

start page

• 98

end page

• 104

volume

• 79

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6676.2001.tb01948.x

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being