Do family therapists' family ideologies affect their impressions of families?
The impact of patients' and family therapists' own family values on judgments about a help-seeking family was investigated via a clinical analogue. Fifty family-oriented clinicians were classified as either traditional or nontraditional in their beliefs about the family. Clinical judgments were rendered of a hypothetical family in which the parents' verbalizations were suggestive of either traditional or nontraditional family values. Little diagnostic value-bias was detected, thereby failing to establish the operation of political bias in the family treatment setting.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D005190:Family; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D012945:Social Values