Reliability and Validity of Diagnosis

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A level Psychology (Clinical) Flashcards on Reliability and Validity of Diagnosis, created by Niamh C on 12/12/2016.
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Concurrent Validity How well two similar tests correlate in terms of results.
Aetiological Validity How well causal factors correlate between sufferers of the same disorder or illness.
Predictive Validity How well a clinician can predict how a disorder will progress
Descriptive Validity -How much the disorder matches with the diagnostic manual. -Patients suffering from different disorders should have different symptoms. -Comorbidity reduces descriptive validity.
Inter-Rater Reliability How closely two clinicians agree on a diagnosis.
Test-Retest Reliability If a test is repeated and gets the same or similar results.
Ford and Widiger Clinicians diagnose people with different genders with different illnesses, despite them having the same symptoms.
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