"Let's Just Do Away with Diagnoses," Says a Clinician

question 95

Multiple Choice

"Let's just do away with diagnoses," says a clinician. "All we do is make things worse." That clinician's viewpoint is:

• A) shared by a strong majority of those working in the area of abnormality.
• B) shared by almost no one working in the area of abnormality.
• C) shared by some of those working in the area of abnormality.
• D) represented in DSM-5, which does not require a specific diagnosis.

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Definitions:

Correlational Study

A research approach that seeks to find out if there is a relationship between two or more variables through statistical analysis, without establishing a cause-and-effect link.

Causation

The relationship between cause and effect, where one event (the cause) is responsible for the occurrence of another event (the effect).

Experimental Study

An investigative approach that directly manipulates variables to determine cause-and-effect relationships.

Cause-and-effect Relationship

A connection between two variables where a change in one directly causes a change in the other.