Psychology vs Psychiatry Flashcards
What is psychology?
Formal scientific study of mind and behaviour
How many years of training for psychology and psychiatry?
PSYCHIATRIST
- 5 years medicine
- 2 years FY1 and FY2
- 3 years speciality training
PSYCHOLOGIST
- 3 years Bsc
- 3/4 years PhD
What does psychology cover?
Cognitivism, behaviourism, qualitative, medical and social
Name some sub-disciplines of psychology
- cognitive
- social
- developmental
- statistical
- clinical
- counselling
- biological
- educational
- occupational
What is psychiatry?
Branch of medicine concerned with classification, treatment and management of psychiatric or mental disorder and disease
Name some sub-disciplines of psychiatry
- addiction
- biological
- paediatric
- community
- cross cultural
- emergency
- forensic
- geriatric
- military
- neuropsychiatry
- social
What is the biggest part of the job of a clinical psychologist?
- supporting psychiatrists
- diagnostics (working out behaviour/ IQ tests or learning disabilities)
What is a fundamental difference in the studies of psychiatry and psychology?
Psychologists more interested in healthy working mind as well as dysfunctional.
Psychiatrists interested mostly just in pathologies and treatment
Psychiatrists tend to have a more biological reasoning to illnesses, whereas psychologists don’t always rely on biological reasoning.
What is cognitivism?
To do with how a individual thinks; intelligence and processing ability
What are qualitative approaches?
- qualitative research
- analysing the data
- the experience of a situation
What do biological psychologists do?
More research based, studying intracellular and hormonal changes
What do developmental psychologists do?
Looks at the whole lifespan Not just development of children)
-study how age changes the interaction and perception of the world
What are models of psychiatry and psychology
- medical model
- cognitive model
- behevioural model
- qualitative phenomenolical
- scientific
