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Past research suggests that when clinicians know a plausible life event cause for a person\u2019s disordered symptoms, they generally judge that person to be less abnormal than if the cause was unknown. However, the current, fourth edition of the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/jats:italic>\n                    specifies that only bereavement-related life events exclude a client from a diagnosis of MDD, and the upcoming fifth edition of the manual (\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">DSM-V<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) is currently slated to eliminate this bereavement clause altogether.\n                    <jats:bold>Objective.<\/jats:bold>\n                    To systematically examine whether clinicians\u2019 judgments reflect agreement with either of these formal\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">DSM<\/jats:italic>\n                    specifications.\n                    <jats:bold>Method.<\/jats:bold>\n                    In a controlled experiment, 72 practicing, licensed clinical psychologists made judgments about realistic MDD vignettes that included a bereavement event, stressful non-bereavement event, neutral event, or no event.\n                    <jats:bold>Results.<\/jats:bold>\n                    Bonferroni-corrected paired comparisons revealed that both bereavement and non-bereavement life events led MDD symptoms to be rated as significantly less indicative of a depression diagnosis, less abnormal, less rare, and less culturally unacceptable (all\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2264 0.001) relative to control conditions.\n                    <jats:bold>Limitations.<\/jats:bold>\n                    Clinicians made judgments of realistic, controlled vignettes rather than patients.\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusions.<\/jats:bold>\n                    The results suggest that practicing clinical psychologists assess symptoms within the explanatory context of bereavement and non-bereavement life stressors, indicating a departure from the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">DSM\u2019s<\/jats:italic>\n                    recommendations, both current and proposed. 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