Psychologists in a Bias in Diagnosis

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Created on: 10-06-15 13:45

Cochrane and Sashidharan

Black Afro-Caribbean immigrants are 7 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia

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Ebigno

Depression manifests differently in varied cultures

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Lewis

asked 139 psychologists to make a judgement about treatments/ whether criminal proceedings were taken. Some told black Afro, others white- identical symptoms.Based on reading of case studies = more likely to recommend treatment if patient was black.

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World Health Organisation

Did a study to see if black people were more prone to getting schizophrenia. They expected to similar rates across cultures

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Nazroo

Rates of Schizophrenia are not as high as rates in the UK. This gives evidence for a cultural bias

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Littlewood

Mental health practitioners judge people to be insane when they are actually reacting to disadvantage and racism.

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Robins et al

Men are more likely to be diagnosed with alcohol abuse than women whilst women are more likely to have depression and phobias

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Walker

Women with depression outnumber men between 2-6 times.

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Cochrane

Earlier in the 20th century men were more likely to be admitted to hospital than women. Lack of evidence for this reduces the reliability.

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Worrell and Remer

Men and women are diagnosed in different ways; they showed women react more to stress.

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Weissman et al

Found some evidence that high levels of depression are due to hormones, but this doesn't explain the large differences.

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