Clinical Psychology Flashcards
More than __________________ worldwide have mental health disorders.
450,000,000
What is the cost of mental health problems in Canada?
63 billion
Clinical Psychologists can do a range of activities. Name some
Assessment and diagnosis
Consultation
Treatment
Program evaluation and administration
Research
__________________ is the psychological specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive mental and behavioural health care for individuals, couples, families, and groups, as well as consultation to agencies and communities
Clinical psychology
_______________ are medical professionals who deal primarily with physiological and bio-chemical systems relating to mental health.
Psychiatrists
What is the difference between a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist?
Clinical psychologists assess and provide treatment for mental disorders, and psychiatrists can prescribe medication.
_______________ manage administrative matters in inpatient treatment settings.
Psychiatric Nurses
_________________ provide less assessment and psychotherapy compared to clinical psychologists
Psychiatrists
_________________ provide psychoeducation, consultation, supervision, therapy and administrative support
Psychiatric Nurses
________________ is the most common model in clinical psychology. They develop clinical and research skills.
Science practitioner
____________________ is the strongest focus on the development of research skills.
Clinical scientist
A _____________________ will primarily focus on clinical training.
Practitioner scholar
In a __________________, you place less emphasis on research-related aspects of training, have more emphasis on clinically relevant aspects of training, and accept and enroll a much larger percentage and number of applicants.
PsyD program
__________________ is graduated exposure to clinical skills in a variety of settings
Practica
To become a clinical psychologist, you will need to complete _________________ for a master’s thesis & doctoral dissertation
Research
___________________________ take 1,500 to 2,000 hours fulltime in an accredited setting.
Field Placements & Predoctoral Internships
__________________________ take 1,500 hours of supervised practice in an accredited setting.
Postdoctoral Internships
The core content areas of psychology are _________________________________.
Biological, cognitive, social, developmental and individual differences
The ___________________ is a 60-item multiple choice exam that focuses on legislation, regulation, and codes of ethics.
Jurisprudence exam
What are the 4 areas of the mental health spectrum?
Healthy, stress, struggling, crisis
Did the proportion of hospitalizations for mental disorders increase or decrease from 2019 to 2020?
Increase
Did the Kid’s help phone receive more or less calls during the pandemic (2020)?
More
Are males or females more likely to be hospitalized due to mental disorders?
Females
Has the dispensation of anxiety meds been increasing or decreasing since 2016?
Increasing
Which activity do clinical psychologists spend the most time doing?
Intervention
_________________ means going from being a research producer to a research consumer
Continuum
After passing your EPPP and Jurisprudence exam you are referred to as ________________.
Psychologist in Autonomous Practice
__________________ is a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological problems or disorders.
Clinical psychology
______________________ would (under supervision) conduct both clinical work and their own empirical research (thesis and dissertation).
Graduate students
_____________________________ is associated with getting a PhD.
Science-practitioner model (Boulder model)
_____________________________ is associated with getting a PsyD
Practitioner-scholar model (Vail model)
The _____________________ emphasizes the scientific, research oriented side of clinical psychology.
Clinical scientist model
The risk of substance abuse for LGBTQ+ people studying to become a clinical psychologist is higher. True or false?
True
PsyD programs accept more people than Ph.D. programs. True or false?
True
__________________________ consists of a full year of supervised clinical experience in an applied setting (e.g. a psychiatric hospital, university counselling centre, community mental health centre, etc) where clinical psychologists work.
Predoctoral internship
The ______________ is a standardized multiple choice exam on a broad range of psychology topics.
EPPP
Once licensed, clinical psychologists must accumulate ____________________ to renew the license from year to year.
Continuing education units (CEU’s)
The purpose of ____________ is to ensure that clinical psychologists stay up to date on developments in the field, with the intention of maintaining or improving the standard of care they can provide for clients.
Continuing education units (CEU’s)
Less than half of psychologists have reported that they are at least somewhat involved in each of the following activities: diagnosis/assessment, teaching, supervision, research/writing, consultation, and administration. True or false?
False. More than half.
_________________ go to medical school and are licensed as physicians, and can prescribe medication.
Psychiatrists
______________________ have focused their work on the interaction between a client and the components of society that may contribute to or alleviate and client’s problems.
Social workers
____________________ usually work in schools, but some may work in other settings such as daycare centres or correctional facilities. Their primary function is to enhance the intellectual, emotional, social, and developmental lives of students.
School psychologists
_______________________’s work generally involves counselling of people with problems in living or mild mental illness.
Professional counsellors
_______________________ focus on working with couples and families, but sometimes they also see individuals struggling with issues related to their partners or families.
Marriage and Family therapists
The ________________________________ has a stronger emphasis on practice.
Practitioner-scholar model (Vail model)
The ________________________________ has a roughly equal emphasis on empiricism and practice
Science-practitioner model (Boulder model)
The ________________________________ has a stronger emphasis on empiricism.
Clinical scientist model
