Psychiatry, psychology and Social Worker Flashcards
Psychologist
go to graduate school in psychology
Graduate courses in human behavior, development, personality, research, statistics, psychotherapy, assessment, ethics. Two years for master’s degree, four to six years for doctoral degree, followed by one to two years of full-time internship.
Psychiatry
Can prescribe meds
Went to med school
Social Work
Cannot prescribe medication
Work with the community, particularly children, adolescents and elderly people.
Can offer psychotherapy
Educational and Developmental psychologists
Work with children’d development
Help parents or teachers of kids with learning disabilities.
Work on educational, social and developmental issues
Help parents and children for problems such as school avoidance, learning difficulties, low self-esteem, bullying etc…
Forensic psychologists
Work with criminals, victims, justice personal and police.
Aim to find the cause, treatment and prevention of criminal behavior
Perform psychological assessments and reports for court
Appear in court as witnesses
Health psychologists
Work with healthcare system to promote prevention and treatment of illness’.
Effect of psychological factors on health.
Organisational psychologists
Specialise in areas of employment, human resource, management, market researching and advertising.
Assist in job recruitment, job analysis, training and development, organisational change, workplace research and performance reviews.
Sport psychologists
SPORT
help with mental health, managing stress and anxiety, and team building,
Clinical neuropsychologists
Assess monitor and manage people with brain impairments such as epilepsy, head injury, neurological disease, strokes, drug and alcohol disorders, learning disabilities, dementia and shizoprenia.
Clinical psychologist
Assess diagnose and treat mental illness
Most work in sub specialties
Counselling psychologists
Assist with relationships,
For individuals: help manage stress, grief and loss, chronic pain, depression, anger and violence, eating disorder
For couples: improve communication and parenting skills, manage conflict and divorce
For families: problems experienced in families, and communication
For organizations: help select new staff, evaluate and conduct new training programs and help with conflict resolution.
Community psychologists
Work with communities to solve problems that affect the psychological welfare of a community.
E.g work with migrant groups to help them adjust to a new country.
