Exam 1 - Clinical Flashcards
What are the three components of Psychological Assessment?
1) diagnosis
2 case formulation
3) treatment planning and monitoring
What is diagnosis ?
creating a specialized treatment?
what is case formulation ?
What goes into treatment planning an monitoring?
holistic, devleopmental, and cultural context
planning and prognosis
–> monitoring treatments
what are some other goals alongside psychological assessment of this course?
- Understand then for psychological intervention
- ensuring that treatments are EFFECTIVE and COST EFFECTIVE.
-providing an ETHICAL SERVICE DELIVERY
define clinical psychology
the application of psychological knowledge to alleviate distress and promote wellbeing
what activities are included in clinical psychology?
- assessment
- diagnosis
- consultation
-treatment
-evalutaion
-research
-teaching
what is the ethicical principles of clinical psych?
- respect for dignity of persons
1) bodily autonomy, respecting boundaries. (most important) - responsible caring
2) ensuring that we maximize benefit and minimize harm - integrity in relationships::
3) demonstrating integrity in relationships with clients, colleagues and the profession in general - responsibility to society
4) balancing responsibility between individuals and society.
What is evidence based practice?
- originally developed within medicine
- includes mental and behavioural heath care, social work, education, and criminal justice..
a) requires the clinician to synthesize information from research and systematically collect data on patients in question
b) emphasizes the importance of informing patients based on the best research evidence, about viable options for assessment, preveiuon or other intervention services.
++ the clinicians professional experience and patients preferences
what are the problems with evidence based practice in psychology??
- group based data not applicable to individuals..
- clients cannot wait for the best research
–> file drawer problem
what is the file drawer problem?
when research does not produce significant results they get pushed to the side, and typically not published… its important to acknowledge failures too.
how many people have mental disorders worldwide?
450,000,000
about half of all mental disorders begin before the age of ____
14
do mental disorders increase the risk for physical disorders?
yes
do health conditions increase the risk for mental disorders?
YES
what is the cost of mental health in Canada per year?
63 billion
Who can the origins of biopsychosocial psych be traced back too?
what else was he famous for?
Hippocrates
“father of modern medicine”
+ colour of bile theory
what is the biopsychosocial approach?
a theoretical framework that takes into account biological, psychological, and social influences on health and illness
What are some lifestyle factors that impact mental health?
- chronic stress
- Lower SES
- Diet, sleep, exorcise
- Disability
What mental health career would most likely assess how psychology can either increase or decrease health and wellbeing
health psychology
What mental health career would most likely work with prisons / offenders who have a similar pattern of offence?
forensic psychology
What mental health career would most likely study specialize on things like dementia or strokes?
clinical neuropsychology
What mental health career would CANT make diagnosis outside of the realm of learning disorders?
School psychologists
What mental health career do you have to become a doctor first?
psychiatry
What mental health career would most likely work in places like the emergency department and mostly encounter things like suicidal ideation / panic attack / OD
psychiatric nurse
What mental health career can also do a degree specializing in clinical?
social work
What mental health career is sort of a catch all term (/Unregulated term) that deals with subthrehold individuals and day to day difficulties ?
counsellors
define: syndrome
a group of symptoms that frequently co-occur
Before Hippocrates, what did people think caused mental health problems? / what was the treatment
DEMONS.
- blood letting
- being chained over a pit of snakes
- exorcisms
Clinical utility & service evaluation are 2 problems clinical psych is starting to address
define: clinical utility
usefulness of assessment data to provide information that leads to a clinical outcome that is better (or faster or less expensive) than would be the case if the psychologist didnt have the assessment data
if the data leads to better treatment
Clinical utility & service evaluation are 2 problems clinical psych is starting to address
Define: service evaluation
activities designed to examine whether or not services work.
When in history did therapy and the scientific method begin to emerge??
Enlightenment period!
started to treat people humanly and with compassion
Why is European psychiatry important?
( freud / Charcot)
they started the movement that the mind is really powerful.
psychotherapy is typically seen as beginning with them.
define: efficacy
evidence that a treatment has been shown to work under research conditions that emphasized internal validity
define: effectivness
evidence that a treatment has been shown to work in real world conditions
define: effectiveness
evidence that a treatment has been shown to work in real world conditions
what does clinical psychology have in common with other mental health professions?
focuses on assessment and intervention in the prevention and treatment of emotional / behavioural and neurological problems.
History:
who conceptualized mental disorders and diagnostic systems?
Kraepelin
- devoted his career to create scientifically based classification system in response to the primitive treatment methods in the 1800s
- coined the term syndromes (groups of symptoms that co-occur)
- classified schizophrenia (one of his major accomplishments)
- structure of DSM is because of his work
History:
Who emphasized intelligence’s importance in the devlopment of clinical psych?
–> wanted all children to maximize their potential to learn and grow
Binet
- wanted children with limited cognitive abilities to receive best education possible
- wanted to find a way to be able to identify the group of children with limited intelligence
- Binet-Simon scale of intelligence / 50 test of mental skills, between ages of 3-13
- scientifically based test for human intelligence
History:
Who developed tests to evaluate personality?
Rorschach
- based on self-description
- a persons reaction to a stimuli shows their personality characteristics
- inkblot test [a projective test]
What are the three ways that we assess mental health disorders?
1) data from mutliple sources / methods
2) should use measures that have scientific support
3) assessment should drive treatment / recommendations
What are the three waves of devleopment of various theoretical orientation?
1) psychoanalysis
- Freud / jung / Adler
2) behaviourism
- John Watson / little Albert
3) humanistic
- carl rogers
(pscho behaviour is human)
Who critiqued the effectiveness of psychotherapy, and thus highlighted the importance in researching / evaluating therapy outcomes?
Hans Eysenck
what is an example of evidence based treatments?
when meta-analysis was created, it was found that psychotherapy was super effective (80%) of people improved compared to a group that didn’t have treatment
what yields long term benefits of enhancing wellbeing and reducing problems?
prevention
how does prevention work?
preventing physical and mental problems by reducing risk factors and enhancing protective factors
What does assessment involve?
- evaluating the psychological functioning of an individual or a realationship. (couple / parent / ect)
- evaluating whether behaviour problems are serious enough for intervention (specialzed programs).
- intensity / frequency / duration of certain behaviours.
- plays an important role in the planning / monitoring and evaluation of intervention
- formulating diagnosis
** assessment can be done though lots of methods such as: interviews, self report measures, observations, performance on taks, and reports from informants**
What does intervention involve?
- psychotherapy
- talk therapy
- 40% of profession goes into intervention
- CBT
define: clinical consultation
the provision of information, advice, and recommendations about how to best assess, understand or treat a client
define: organizational consultation:
services to an organization focused on devloping a prevention or intervention program, evaluating how well an oranization is doing in providing a health care or related service, or providing an opinion on policies on health care services set by an organization
What is therapy?
evidence based treatment backed by science to treat clinically significant disorders
what is counsoling?
more for life changes or sub threshold problems
What are dead persons goals (lol)
goals we can only achieve when we are dead
- no more anxiety
- they are unrealistic and not ethical to pursue with a client
Why do many clients only attend a few sessions?
- effective treatment should be time limited
- long term therapy is not the goal
- get people out and make them believe they CAN be healded
What are the PROS of clinical psychologist not prescribing medication?
- easier on psychologist
- brain behaviour links
- could be as competent as other healthcare providers
- offer comprehensive service es
- remote or underserved areas
What are the CONS of clinical psychologist not prescribing medication?
- may lead to greater prescribing as it is quicker in the short term
- not sole focused on psychological interventions
- extend training or drop something else?
What should psychologists know about drugs? (even if they aren’t prescribing)
- classes of drugs for different problems
- efficacy of drugs and of drugs in combination with psychological treatment
- how a drug is started or stopped
- side effects