Final Exam Flashcards
American Psychological Association
body that provides parameters for the definition of clinical psychology
boulder model
the balanced, two-pronged approach to clinical psychology training that emphasizes practice and research
clinical psychology
first used in print in 1907, conceptualized as work with clients that involved aspects of treatment, education, and interpersonal issues
clinical-scientist model
the approach to clinical psychology training that emphasizes research and science more so than clinical practice
counseling psychologists
psychologists who were historically more likely to work with (“counsel”) clients whose psychological disorders were less severe
Division of Clinical Psychology
division of the American Psychological Association that provides a (very broad) definition of clinical psychology
postdoctoral internship
the internship that takes place after receiving a PhD/PsyD degree that typically lasts 1-2 years that culminates in licensure for a psychologist
practitioner-scholar model
an educational and operational model that focuses on the practical application of scholarly knowledge
professional counselors
professionals that counsel people with problems in living or mild mental illness (also called licensed professional counselors or LPCs)
psychiatrists
licensed physicians that can prescribe medications
science-practitioner model
founded on the ideology that trained professional psychologists should be knowledgeable in both research and clinical practice.
Vail model
the approach to clinical psychology training that emphasizes clinical practice rather than academic research
Lightner Witmer
first person to use “clinical psychology” in print, first person to operate a psychological clinic
Boulder Conference (1949)
the conference where training directors agreed both practice and research were essential to PhD clinical psychology training
diagnostic criteria
lists indicating exactly what symptoms constitute each disorder
Dorothea Dix
an early pioneer of clinical psychology who traveled to cities collecting data on the treatment of people with mental illness, presented that data to local community leaders, and persuaded them to adopt more humane treatment
Emil Kraepelin
the father of descriptive psychiatry who created a new two-category system that differentiated mental illnesses into exogenous and endogenous disorders
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
first published in 1943, a comprehensive personality measure of 550 true-false statements that compared test takers’ answers to groups in the standardization sample that represented diagnostic categories and included validity scales to assess the test takers’ response
multiaxial system
a five-axis method of assessment and organization of biopsychosocial information in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Philippe Pinel
an early pioneer of clinical psychology in France who brought people with mental illness out of dungeons and into his new institutions
psychodynamic
an approach in clinical psychology that emphasizes psychotherapy that rose to prominence in the mid-20th century
psychosis
a mental state that can make it difficult to distinguish between reality and fantasy
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales
Lewis Terman’s revision of the Binet-Simon scale
Edward Lee Thorndike
a 20th-century psychologist who promoted the idea that each person possesses separate, independent intelligences
Eli Todd
an early pioneer of clinical psychology who carried out Pinel’s message in the U.S. and opened The Retreat
William Tuke
an early pioneer of clinical psychology in England who devoted much of his life to improving conditions in asylums and opened the York Retreat
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS and WISC)
-WAIS: the re-standardized and revised Wechsler-Bellevue test published in 1955
-WISC: the children’s version of Wechsler’s intelligence test published in 1949
Lightner Witmer
the founder of the first psychological clinic who systemically and intentionally applied the science of psychology to people’s problems
Patrick H. DeLeon
a former president of the APA who advocates for the movement toward prescribing
evidence-based practice
a treatment approach that uses the best available scientific evidence to inform clinical decision-making and service delivery
manualized therapy
a type of behavior therapy that uses treatment manuals to guide clinicians in applying specific therapeutic techniques to various mental health disorders.
Robert McGrath
a prominent director and former president of the Society for Prescribing Psychology who advocates for the movement toward prescribing
prescription privileges
the ability to prescribe medication to patients
Morgan T. Sammons
a widely recognized expert of psychopharmacology and 1 of 10 psychologists who took part in the first pilot program of psychologists prescribing medication
telepsychology
the use of technology, particularly the Internet, by clinical psychologists to deliver care
therapy manual
a tool used to keep variability among therapists to a minimum so that if the technique proves effective, it can be shared in exact, unambiguous terms
acculturation
people’s response to a new cultural environment, especially concerning adopting elements of the new culture or retaining elements of their original culture
cultural competence
the awareness, knowledge, and skills clinicians can display in order to treat their client best
cultural concepts of distress
terms that represent psychological problems observed in groups from various parts of the world that have been compiled in a glossary in the DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR