a diagnosis is considered valid if it measures what it is supposed to measure
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tested the validity of diagnosis of schizoprhenia using the DSM
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there is no clear cut relationship between diagonsis and treatment results in low predictive validity
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found there to be a 50% chance of correctly predicting the treatment a patient will receive on the basis of a diagnosis
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looked into hpw much the DSM IV agreed with the ICD 10, good agreement on disorders like depression and anxiety, found poor agreement on PTSD so validity depend on the disorder
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checked by comparing diagnostic tools for consistency
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examining causes of the disorder and the persons history
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if diagnosis can lead towards future predictions of symptoms, recovery etc
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clinicians judgement is affected by stereotypes, schema etc. it affects both validity and reliabilty
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for a diagnosis to be reliable it needs to pass some type of test
