Abstract
Current trends in mental health imply increased use of mental health paraprofessionals in a variety of mental health settings. The present investigation was an attempt to explore the semantics of paraprofessional's judgments about patients. Psychiatric technicians in a public mental hospital were asked to make evaluative judgments about patients in their wards. In addition, they were asked to rate the patients on a 22-item scale concerned with specific behaviors or first-order inferences about behavior. The pattern of correlations as well as regression weights between evaluations and behavioral ratings were used to infer the “meanings”of the paraprofessionals evaluations of patients. Results indicated that most paraprofessionals tended to look for similar behaviors in making evaluations of patients. The semantic framework was simple and intelligible. Training uses of the research method were also discussed.
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