Chapter 1 Flashcards
Distinction between psychology and psychiatry
Main differences include their education and training, views about mental health problems and treatments, and the kinds of services they provide.
Define Psychology
Distinguish behaviour from mental processes.
Clinical Psychology
Focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems and illnesses.
Clinical Neuropsychology
Helps rehabilitate people with problems arising from brain damage or irregularities in brain function.
Community Psychology
Works with individuals, community groups and organisations to help improve the health and welfare of people in the community.
Counselling Psychology
Helps people deal with all kinds of personal and relationship problems.
Educational and Development Psychology
Helps people with issues that affect their learning or with life changes.
Forensic Psychology
Works with people in legal and criminal justice settings.
Health Psychology
Promotes and maintains health-related behaviour, works on improving the health care system.
Organisational Psychology
Helps people in workplaces.
Sport and Exercise Psychology
Helps athletes to develop mental skills to achieve peak performance.
Biological Psychology
Focuses on bodily structures, systems and activities associated with behavioural and mental processes.
Cognitive Psychology
Focuses on how people acquire, process, remember and use information.
Personality Psychology
Focuses on people’s ways of thinking characteristics, feeling and behaving.
Social Psychology
Focuses on how behaviour can change in different social situations.
