To minimize the cultural biases that may occur during diagnosis, it is suggested that diagnosticians do all of the following except ____

a. ?focus less on the concepts of normality and abnormality
b. ?become more aware of cognitive shortcuts that can impair clinical judgments
c. ?diagnose solely based on published criteria and standardized interview formats
d. ?rely less on their own clinical impressions


ANSWER:
a

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