
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In graduate school, many of us are taught to believe we have to be the experts in diagnosis. It can frustrate us when clients come in with their own misguided reading of blogs online to formulate their own diagnosis. But it can also be extremely useful to listen to clients, take them at their word, and realize the shortcomings of our diagnoses and the diagnostic process.
By Rebecca Toner, MA, LPCIn graduate school, many of us are taught to believe we have to be the experts in diagnosis. It can frustrate us when clients come in with their own misguided reading of blogs online to formulate their own diagnosis. But it can also be extremely useful to listen to clients, take them at their word, and realize the shortcomings of our diagnoses and the diagnostic process.