Exam 1 Flashcards
Clinical Psychology integrates ______ in order to _____
Clinical psychology integrates SCIENCE, THEORY AND PRACTICE, in order to UNDERSTAND, PREDICT,AND ALLEVIATE maladjustment,, disability and comfort…
Clinical Psychology Activities
Research, Teaching and training, Psychological assessment, psychotherapy Consultation, Administration (clinical supervision too)
Related fields of Clinical
Psychiatry, counseling psychology, school psychology, health psychology, clinical social work, (psychiatric nurses), (paraprofessionals (people trained to assist professional mental health care workers)
scientist-practitioner
Boulder model: trains students to both produce and consume research. receive training in providing treatment with emphasis on research evidence. aims to integrate the role of scientist with practitioner.
Scholar-practitioner
emphasis on clinical training, research training in order to be consumers of research and integrate existing research literature into clinical practice. Model of PsyD
Clinical Scientist Model
focuses on evidence based approaches to assessment prevention and clinical intervention, arose from concerns that clinical psych is not sufficiently grounded in science, many get this degree to focus only on research
Graduate training
Coursework, assessment/testing, clinical training, research training, clinical internship, postdoctoral/continuing education
Lightner Witmer
coined term “clinical psychology” in the journal The Psychological Clinical” was first published;established first psychological clinic to treat children with learning and behavior disorders in 1896; established journal to report on his application of methods in the clinic
Ancient Greeks Theory
Humeral theory: functioning is related to having too much or too little of four key bodily fluids (humors): blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile
Emile Kraeplin
wrote a book which discussed sorting people into different disorders based on symptoms that ran together
Described and clarified these types of disorders, nature and course of disorders: exogenous factors (curable) and endogenous factors (incurable)
General paresis
neurosyphilis: syphilis spreads to the brain and produces paralysis, insanity and eventual death
suggested that organic bases of other mental disorders could be discovered: like toxins etc.
Medical Treatment of mental disorders
development of modern medicine identified the brain as center of mental disorders, so interventions aimed to change brain functioning
1) lobotomy
2) electroshock therapy
3) medications
Sigmund Freud
Took first major steps toward understanding psychological factors in mental disorders; father of psychoanalytic perspective and psychodynamic therapy;
Freud’s theory of treatment
Model of mind has unconscious and conscious
Resolving intrapsychic conflicts between ID, EGO and SUPEREGO resulting in catharsis
Psychoanalysis: analyze psyche, gain insight into problems, then able to move past it; introduced talk therapy
ID, EGO and SUPEREGO
ID: illogical, irrational pleasure principle, superego: moral principles; Ego: reality principle, logical rational
Francis Galton
looked at differences in reaction time as intelligence differences
Wilhelm Wunt
established first psychology laboratory
James McKeen Cattel
studied connection between reaction time and intelligence and coined term “mental test”
Alfred Binet
Binet-simon scale measured 50 tests of mental skills after being asked by the french govt to design a measure to assess children with cognitive deficits
- norm referenced test of intelligence to mental age
Army Alpha Test
US gov asked APA to develop a scale to measure mental functioning of recruits during WWI: tested verbal abilities
Army Beta Test
During WWI, measured non-verbal abilities for those who could not read or speak much english
Radical Behaviorism
only obvert behaviors can be measured; reaction to need for objective measures
Influence of WWII
- testing for recruits
- soldiers needing treatment when returning from war and members of public affected by loss
- need was so great that there wasn’t enough psychiatrists and psychologists started to become more recognized
Hans Eysenck
wrote 1952 paper that suggested that treatments weren’t actually effective, and led practitioners to strive for more research support and create new therapy approaches
APA controversies
1) clinical psych began to dominate APA and non clinical people started APS
2) APA supported position that psychologists should have prescribing privileges
3) support for enhanced interrogations and development of torture tactics
caused development of other societies that are more specialized
Barnum Effect
if you speak in ways that are vague, most people can relate to any statement
Complications in treatment research
1) spontaneous recovery
2) placebo/expectancy effects
3) nonspecific effects of therapy
Scientific thinking in clinical psych
- question
-hypothesis
select measures of key variables: independent variable and dependent variable - select a research design
-select a study sample
-collect data - analyze data
- make conclusion
non-scientific thinking in clinical
- first impressions
- anecdotes
- tradition
- appeals to authority
Pseudoscience
alleged knowledge, beliefs or practices that are portrayed as scientific but diverge from required standards for scientific method
operational definition
specific procedures by which the researcher measures a variable
reliability
degree to which a measure is consistent and repeatable
internal consistency
degree to which the items of a measure are in agreement
test retest reliability
consistency over time
inter-rater reliability
degree of agreement among two independent raters
validity
degree to which a test measures what it intends to
face validity
appears to measure what it purports to
convergent/discriminant validity
should relate to similar measures (converge) and diverge from unrelated measures (ex: two depression scales should converge)
predictive validity
how well it predicts other variables (IQ should predict grades)
Epidemiological study
study of incidence, prevalence and distribution of an illness: cross sectional and longitudinal
incidence:
rate of new cases of illness
prevalence
overall rate of cases
Types of experimental studies
case studies
group experimental design
what kind of study is an epidemiological study?
correlational study
Cross-sectional design
take a cross section of the population, collect data at one time point, correlational, no manipulation, subject focus, observe differences between individuals
longitudinal design
study people over time, repeated measures design, time focused, observe changes over time
Types of prevention research
Health promotion, universal prevention, selective prevention, indicated prevention
universal prevention
provide a preventative intervention to entire population (flouridated water)
selective prevention:
targets groups of people at risk (post partum depression)
indicated prevention
targets specific individuals who are showing early signs of a disorder
unsystematic observation
casual observation leads to hypothesis but cannot provide valid data
naturalistic observation
caried out in real life and systematic, but there are no controls
Controlled observation
systematic and controlled by researcher, not exactly real life but mimics it
Case studies
single subject design: intensive study of a client or patient, manipulate timing and nature of experimental conditions, lacks universal scope
Factor analysis
way of examining interrelationships among a number of variables at once,
group experimental designs
manipulating a variable: clinical trials like experiment evaluating treatment effectiveness; provides a control group
Efficacy
trial of a treatment in highly controlled environment. emphasis on internal validity
Effectiveness
trial of a treatment under real world naturalistic conditions (emphasis on external validity; are they generalizable)
Limitations to clinical trials
1) patient uniformity myth –> not all patients are the same
2) many ways to define “response” to treatment: reduction of symptoms, remission, or wellbeing?
generalizability
extent to which results are applicable to larger population
meta-analysis
statistical summary of results across numerous studies
internal validity
whether obtained outcome is really attributable to manipulation of independent variable
external validity
the amount to which a study can be generalized
analog research
studies conducted in lab where control is easier to exert but whose conditions are said to be analogous to real life
ABAB design
systematic observation in changes of participants behaviors: baseline, treatment, withdrawal, reinstatement
mixed designs
combine experimental and correlational methods, allows experimenter to determine whether effectiveness of treatment varies by group classification
statistical significance
whether result would be unlikely to occur soley by chance
practical significance
takes into account how big or generalizable the results are in bigger, clinical picture