Test 1 Flashcards
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clinical psychology
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- field of practise that deals with human fucntions; either problems and solutions or with promoting health and well-being
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evidence-based practise
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- refers to using treatment approaches that have been scientifically tested and validating through rigorous research
- most research has looked into white European cultures and can be seen as the norm
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etiology
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- the cause or the causes of a disease or condition
- determining the care and treatment that must be provided for mentally ill individuals
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ancient greeze
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- hippocrates who was seen as the father of medicine and he started the og view of biopsychosocial
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middle ages
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- somatogenic and asylums
- created horrible environments for people with mental illness and they thought that they could not feel pain so that would hurt these people
- St. Vincent de Paul needed to change this so he looked at how important out natural environment was for everyone
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enlightenment perioiod
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- psychogenic, say that things are happening intenally in our minds that we cannot see
- people started to go to hospitals for treatment of their mental illness
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late 19th century
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- Wilhelm Wundt founded the first psych lab and loooked at sensations and perceptions
- Lightner Witmer founded the first psych clinic as he wanted to emphasis the importance of application for treatment
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early psychology assessment
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- alfred binet and theodore simon
- created better assessments for mental abilites and disorder through the intelligence test
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world war 1 and 2
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- saw how traumartzing war hasd been on the solidiers and need to improve technqiues to help them
- U.S army uses psychology screening to get recruits as they saw how badly it can hurt someone
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psychotherapy imerging
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- psychoanalysis by Frued started to let us think aboout how there is part of our mind we could not control
- behaviorism by Watson and Skinner, viewing the mind as a black box
humanistic psych by Rogers and Maslowo as they looked at relationships, care and self need
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empirical appraoches
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- CBt started to come about in the late 20th century
- adressing criticism of previuos appraches
- looking at chalnege with respect to cultural, accessibility, and flexibility
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technological advances
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- neuroimaging technologies
- articifical intelligence
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assessment and disgnosis
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- evalutaing areas of strenght and difficulties
- can be a family, unit or single
- diagnosis
- usually spending at least 1 day a week doing this
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intervention
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- many different appraoches to how psychology go about doing this
- ex. CBT, psychodynamic, interpersonal, humanistic
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prescription privilege debate
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- detating on whether or not pscyhooogy should have the right to prescribe medication to their clients
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consultation
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- clinical or organizational
- offering your advice in certain contexts to improve services or treatments
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prevention
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- primary, secondary, tertiary preventions
- usually based in a community setting
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research
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- all psychologist msut be trained to conduct research
- ethics code require that you have a commitment to increase scientific knowledge
- most common in hospital or universitys
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teaching
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- can teach in many different settings such as a university or a training program
supervising graduate student, residents, other clinicians - training can be done in two ways: scientist-practitioner or practitioner-scholar model
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how do you ensure that the public and yourself are protected?
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- accreditation of programs and internships
- licensure of individual
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training
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- courses, practica, research, intership
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declaring your competence
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- need to chose what feild you want and what groups of people you will work with
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examinations
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- EPPP
- JEE
- Oral exam
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pillars of clinicial
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- science of clinical
- ethics
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4 principal ethics
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- respect for the dignity of peoples and persons
- responsible caring
- integrity in relationships
- responsibility to society
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classification
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- the way that we organize, describe and relate subjects to one another
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diagnosis
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- the specific category that the person fits in; concisely describes the symptoms that comprise the person’s condition