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clinical diagnosis
clinical diagnosis A clinical diagnosis is a broad professional assessment of a person’s symptoms that brings together the clinical interview, developmental history, day-to-day impairment, and other information such as observation, reports from others, standardized measures, and clinician judgment.
A clinical diagnosis is a broad professional assessment of a person’s symptoms that brings together the clinical interview, developmental history, day-to-day impairment, and other information such as observation, reports from others, standardized measures, and clinician judgment. Because it considers more than scale scores alone, it can capture important features and complexity that symptom questionnaires may miss.