INDIVIDUAL FACTORS

Question 1

Asian patients

Answer 1

Asian patients are more likely to express physiological problems than psychological ones.

Question 2

Patient’s thoughts

Answer 2

A patient may have disorganised thoughts, psychopathy or manipulative tendencies which can change with different clinicians, which can make diagnosis difficult.

Question 3

Unstructured

Answer 3

The unstructured nature of the clinical interview can lead some clinicians to focus on different symptom presentation. This can lead to different information being gathered about a patient and result in a different diagnosis.

Question 4

Subjective

Answer 4

Clinicians use their subjective judgment according to how they interpret the symptoms a patient presents. This is largely dependent on the background, training, culture and experience of a clinician.