Exam 2 Flashcards
What are the differences between a clinical and counseling psychologist?
Clinical Psychologist
- deal with more mental disorders and severe issues
- problem is longer in duration, internal to self, affects many areas of life
Counseling Psychologists
- focused more on life adjustment issues. Ex: adjusting after the death of a loved one
- more general problems
- Can get a Psy D
What is the Boulder Model?
-Know as the Scientist Practitioner Model
-Where earning a PhD with tested knowledge and applying research to practice
- provides students with as much funding as possible
- keeps number of students low in order to maximize mentorship opportunities
- A Phd student is a student and employee at the same time!
- only doctoral programs in clinical and counseling psychology get apa accredited!
What is the Vail Model
- a degree that primary focuses on treatment and assessment
- doesn’t have an emphasis on research and teaching
- emerged with PsyD!
What is a PsyD?
- A clinical psychology doctoral degree that is practiced based
- accepts more students into program
- comes from professional schools of psychology
How does licensure work for counseling and clinical psychologists?
- licensure is regulated by the states!
- doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology required
- Post doctoral training required in which practice is supervised by licensed psychologist
- successful completion of EPP Exam
What is the EPPP Exam?
- examination for state licensure for clinical and counseling psychologists
What is a Mental Health Technician/Aid, Psychiatric Technician?Requirements?
- Spend time in direct contact with patients in inpatient, residential, camp setting
- Technicians aids are involved in entire spectrum of patient’s daily routine
- Only need a bachelors! Sometimes not even!
What are Human/ Social service workers?
- work typically involves coordination services between a client and agency that serves them
- work in non profit setting, they may be involved in community outreach, variety cases and coordination services
What is a neuropsychologist?
- a licensed clinical neurologist psychologist that has training in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience
- helps individuals with massive brain injuries
What is the NASP?
National Association of School Psychologists
What are school psychologists?
-School psychologists work in the education system with children, helping them academically and clinically.
- do a variety of testing on children when it comes to learning disabilities
What educational requirements do you need when it comes to being a school psychologist?
-250 hours of practicum
- 1200 contact hour internship lasting a full school year under the direction of accredited school psychologists
- at least a master’s in the field, if not higher education
Where do school psychologists work?
- schools
- universities
- juvenile systems
What is a forensic psychologist? What education do they need?
- Forensic psychologists is the practice of applying psychology to law
- research in law enforcement, jury selection, etc
- need a doctorate degree
What is a counseling sports psychologist?
- specialize with working with athletes to enhance their overall performance with an emphasis of the mental side to sports
- need a doctorate degree
What is Experimental Psychology? What is the issue with it, and what do they do?
- fields within psychology that focus on Research!
- issue with a “experimental psychology” degree is that it does not specify what research they are doing
- Often are professors conducting research, and teaching
What is a Experiment?
- for a experiment you want to diversify and RANDOMIZE your experiment distribution to avoid bias!
- have to set up GROUPS for your experiment!
- have to Manipulate independent variable!
What field of psychology does Experimental psychology include?
- biological psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Social Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Physiological Psychology
What are the commonalities of needed education for “experimental” psych degrees
- all research focused!
- most jobs require doctorate
- high quality PhD programs provide Assistantships
- Post doctoral fellowships are optional and research focused
What are ways to prepare in your undergraduate for a masters or PhD?
- gain research experience
- high gpa
- high GRE scores
- strong letters of recommendation
What is the GRE?
Standardized test to get into psychology graduate program
Describe the life of a phd student in experimental psychology
- Research
- TA & RA responsibilities
- 3-5 semesters of research methods
- 2-3 courses in teaching
- courses in content area
What jobs can you get in research without a doctorate?
- Lab Technician
- Data analyst
- Sales person
What is a Biological Psychologist?
- researches brain functions to understand human behaviors and how effects of mental illness may have on human behavior
What are cognitive psychologist?
- study how the human brain works
- apply psychological science to understand how we perceive events and make decisions
What are developmental psychologists?
Study human growth and development over a lifespan
- how one develops physically, emotionally, and mentally overtime
What are Social psychologists?
- study how social influence, social perception and social interaction influence individual and group behavior
What are industrial organizational psychologists?
- study and focus on behavior of employees in the work place
- apply research methods to improve work performance and environment
