Discuss concerns about the effects of labeling and stereotyping through diagnosis on both the patient and people who interact with the patient

What will be an ideal response?

Diagnostic categories can encourage stereotyping and misconceptions about specific disorders. Stereotyping by diagnosis can lead clinician to premature or inaccurate assumptions about patients that prevent a thorough evaluation and comprehensive treatment plan. Categories can reflect the beliefs or limited knowledge of an era.

Psychology

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a) internal locus of control b) decremental c) incidental d) external locus of control

Psychology

How do the rates of suicidal ideation, parasuicide, and completed suicide compare for adolescent males and females in the United States? Why do these rates differ?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology