The text states that the emphasis in diagnosis in the past 50 years has been on "reliability of diagnosis such that mental health professionals in one location would diagnose the same individual in the same manner as professionals in another location." With respect to the type of reliability discussed in the textbook, this passage refers MOST closely to ______ reliability.

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The passage is discussing the consistency of diagnosis across different locations, indicating inter-rater reliability, which is the extent to which different raters (in this case, mental health professionals in different locations) give consistent ratings (in this case, diagnoses) of the same phenomenon (in this case, an individual's mental health). The other types of reliability mentioned (internal, test-retest, and alternate-form) are not directly related to the concept being discussed in the passage.

The Text States That the Emphasis in Diagnosis in the Past