title: [Clinical consistency in the diagnostic approach to the patient. Notes relating to the use of psychometric procedures in clinical psychiatry].
abstract: The authors underline the difficulties of the introduction and use of the psychometric approach in psychiatry. The use of protocols for the standardised evaluation and measurement of psychopathological phenomena is soon revealed to be open to criticism regarding the objective character of the object of the inquiry in psychiatry; at the same time there is an equally legitimate need not only for "forms" but also clinical "contents" without which the doctor's role loses its traditional target.
authors.affiliation: Servizio di Salute Mentale, USL n. 41, Riccione, Forlì.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Montanari
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tugnoli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Giordani
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amore
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
vernacular_title: Coerenza clinica nell'approccio diagnostico al paziente. Alcune note relative alla utilizzazione delle procedure psicometriche in psichiatria clinica.