Basic, first lecture Flashcards
1
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What is clinical psychology?
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- Clinical psychology is the study of abnormal behaviour.
- Psychopathological diagnostics.
- Treatment of psychological disorders.
2
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What does clinical psychology entail?
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Clinical psych is the psychological speciality that provides continuing and comprehensive mental and behavioural health care for individuals and families –> consultation to agencies and communities.
Research based practice.
3
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What is abnormal?
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- behaviour that is deviant from the way people normally act/behave.
- Whether or not a person function or not in society.
- Deviation from the statistical norm.
- Deviation from the social norms.
- Maladaptive behaviour.
- Distress and impairment.
4
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What is a psychological disorder?
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A psychological dysfunction within an individual that is associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected.
5
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What does a clinical psychologist do?
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- Scientist-practitioner.
- Clinical description.
- Etiology –> cause of the problem.
- Treatment
- Prevention.
6
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The biological tradition
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Hippocrates ment that psych disorders should be treated as any other medical disease –> locus in the brain.
7
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What model do clinical psychology use?
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Behavioural, cognitive and social.
