Patients and clients
- Resource Type
- Authors
- P. Calloway; C. Lawton; N. Hymas; C. Denman
- Source
- British Journal of Psychiatry. 178:276-276
- Subject
- Register (sociolinguistics)
Psychiatry and Mental health
Psychotherapist
business.industry
Medicine
business
Word (computer architecture)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1472-1465
0007-1250
We write to register our disquiet at the use of the word ‘ client’ instead of patient in the pages of the British Journal of Psychiatry (e.g. [Marsden et al , 2000][1]). The choice of words has far-reaching consequences, and we believe that this change in usage represents a shift in our