Dr Jennifer Murray J.Murray2@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
An Application of Attribution Theory to Clinical Judgment
Murray, Jennifer; Thomson, Mary E.
Authors
Mary E. Thomson
Abstract
The current article presents an application of attribution theory to clinical judgment, with a focus on the theory’s application to clinical judgments of violence risk assessment.
While attribution theory has been applied to many diverse fields of human behavior, a comparatively limited level of research and discussion has been raised regarding its
application to the very relevant and practical study of clinical decision making (Elbogen, 2002). The current article argues that is not only important for practicing clinicians to understand the way in which their client attributes causality to their behaviour in order to improve upon the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions, but also emphasizes the importance of recognizing and understanding the way in which the clinician attributes causality to the clients behaviour, and how this may affect the development of suitable therapeutic interventions and risk management plans. Through better understanding the effects of attribution on clinical judgments of violence risk assessment, it is argued that improvements to the effectiveness of clinical judgments in violence risk assessment may be possible.
Citation
Murray, J., & Thomson, M. E. (2009). An Application of Attribution Theory to Clinical Judgment. Europe's journal of psychology, 5(3), 96-104. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v5i3.257
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Online Publication Date | Aug 29, 2009 |
Publication Date | 2009 |
Deposit Date | Nov 12, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 12, 2012 |
Print ISSN | 1841-0413 |
Electronic ISSN | 1841-0413 |
Publisher | PsychOpen |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 96-104 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v5i3.257 |
Keywords | General Psychology |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5736 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v5i3.257 |
Files
2009_An_Application_of_Attribution_Theory_to_Clinical_Judgment_1.pdf
(114 Kb)
PDF
Publisher Licence URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
You might also like
Naloxone In Police Scotland - June 2023 update
(2023)
Presentation / Conference
Impact of Childhood Adversity and mental health on young person suicide: the CHASE study
(2023)
Presentation / Conference
Therapeutic Trust in Complex Trauma: A Unique Person-Centred Understanding
(2023)
Journal Article
Criminal justice, risk assessment and dangerousness
(2023)
Book Chapter
Downloadable Citations
About Edinburgh Napier Research Repository
Administrator e-mail: repository@napier.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search