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Changes in rating behaviour during the learning of a standardized psychiatric interview1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

M. Von Cranach  and
J. E. Cooper
M. Von Cranach
Affiliation:
From the U.S.-U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, London
J. E. Cooper
Affiliation:
From the U.S.-U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, London
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Synopsis

The rating behaviour of eight psychiatrists was studied while they learned to use a standardized psychiatric clinical interview schedule. Their progress was followed during live interviews, and also by their ratings of videotape interviews. Significant and consistent changes towards the standards of the teachers were demonstrated, as was a universal tendency to pass through a phase of rating at a higher level of abnormality than the standards they were trying to approach.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , November 1972 , pp. 373 - 380
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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