Mental health is a critical issue in Indonesia, since its population ranks among the top five in the world and the prevalence of common mental disorders is 11.6% of the adult population. However, the need to build an effective mental health-care system that is accessible to the whole population has only been recently addressed. The Aceh tsunami in 2004 brought to the forefront an unexpected win...

This article shows that in judging the degree of pathology of mental patients, expert psychologists, more than novices, assign heavier weight to the more pathological information. This difference is explained in terms of the professional socialization process of clinical psychologists.