Collaborative diagnosis between clinician and patient: Why to do it and what to consider

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Hackmann, Corinna, Wilson, Jon, Perkins, Amorette and Zeilig, Hannah (2019) Collaborative diagnosis between clinician and patient: Why to do it and what to consider. BJPsych Advances, 25 (4). pp. 214-222. ISSN 2056-4678

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Abstract

This article discusses findings from the literature and our own research related to the experience of the diagnostic process in mental healthcare, primarily from the perspective of patients, and it focuses on the benefits of collaboration. A common finding throughout our research is that, if a diagnostic process is undertaken, the majority of patients want to be actively involved and feel valued in it. This helps ensure that they find the process and the resulting diagnosis to be meaningful, informative and useful. We believe that collaboration could also mitigate some of the reported negative unintended consequences of diagnosis, including feeling stigmatised, labelled and disempowered. Our work has led us to conceive of diagnosis as having two overarching elements: the diagnostic process and the resulting diagnostic label. This article focuses specifically on the diagnostic process; we do not consider here the debate surrounding the evidence base for the validity of psychiatric classification.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2020 10:32
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2024 22:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74476
DOI:	10.1192/bja.2019.6

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