Differences in Clinician Vs. Non-Clinician Perceptions of Clinical Symptoms As the Cause or the Result of Psychological Distress

Poster Session II

Keyword: Psychopathology

Abstract: This study concerns how clinicians and non-clinicians conceptualize clinical symptoms, as causal or effect indicators of psychological distress. Overall, clinicians were more likely to identify symptoms as causal indicators than non-clinicians However, this effect differed for specific symptoms. These contrasting perspectives have potential implications for treatment.

• Milena Tutiven Alarcon (Presenting Author)
• William Chaplin (Author)
• Lindsay Arader (Author)