John M Bontempo

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus · active 2025

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other 2025
Ignored, dismissed, and minimized: Understanding the harmful consequences of invalidation in health care-A systematic meta-synthesis of qualitative research
Psychological bulletin ·doi:10.1037/bul0000473

The upsurge in the prevalence of contested, ambiguous, and difficult-to-diagnose illnesses presents challenges for clinicians who too often respond by invalidating patients' symptoms. Although numerous qualitative studies have reported the …