Do Perceptions of Dysfunction and Normality Mediate Clinicians’ Judgments of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10546277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stuart A Kirk (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Derek K Hsieh (Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-266 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Service Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7961 • E-ISSN: 1537-5404 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/599981 |
| OpenAlex | W2018715032 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
Are mental health clinicians guided by the injunctions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in making judgments of mental disorder in youth engaging in antisocial behavior? The DSM requires clinicians making a judgment of mental disorder to first make complex mediating inferences about internal dysfunction and rule out the possibility that behaviors are normal reactions to a problematic environment. Responding to a case vignette in which the social context of antisocial behavior was systematically varied, a sample of 1,500 social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists made judgments about the presence of mental disorder, internal dysfunction, and normality in the antisocial behavior of a youth. Perceptions about the presence of internal dysfunction and normality are found to be related to judgments of mental disorder, but they do not fully mediate the relationship between the influence of social context and judgments of mental disorder
Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Mental health · Normality · Perception · Psychiatry · Vignette · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment · Social Psychology
The Medicalization of Society
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Adolescent Development
Disorder as harmful dysfunction
National Survey of Problems and Competencies among Four- to Sixteen-Year-Olds
Social Context and Social Workers' Judgment of Mental Disorder
Social Workers’ Perceptions of the Balance between the Psychological and the Social
Diagnostic Consistency in Assessing Conduct Disorder
Adolescent drug use and psychological health
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |