What does the exit conference include? (4) - Answers What was done today, the findings in relations to
the norms or standards, the outlook for improvement, recommended to be done?
Questions we need to ask (7) - Answers -Do we have enough information to answer the diagnostic
question with confidence?
-Have new areas been identified during the evaluation?
-How do you organize the information so the patient and the family will understand the problem?
-How do we present the information, so the client regards the information as satisfactory?
-Do I know enough about the problem to recommend therapy or not?
-What other diagnostic procedures or examinations might be useful to them?
-Have I given them sufficient opportunity to ask questions, express their feelings, and to sort out any
decisions about what to do next?
Clinicians as counselors - Answers counseling begins in the diagnostic setting and into therapy; always
counseling patient
3 things we need to do (as counselors) - Answers Help discuss concern, Provide motivation, Offer
support
What will educating the client do? - Answers help patients understand results, features of the disorder,
and implications for management
What recommendations to make - Answers General recommendations, change or stop a behavior, no
therapy recommended, and recommend to another discipline
Intentions of the patient to carry out recommendations (2) - Answers Immediate (sign me up ASAP) or
Delayed (patient waits; thinks about; second opinion)
What is a diagnostic report? - Answers a written record that summarizes the relevant information a
clinician obtained and how they obtain it
Purpose of Diagnostic Report (4) - Answers 1. acts as a guide for further services to the client
2. an official record of the meeting with the patients
3. it communicates the clinician's findings to other professionals
4. it can serve as a document for research purposes