Week One - Clinical Psychology

Question 1

Psychopathology is determined on what?

Answer 1

The basis of several characteristics that appear at one time

Question 2

Good definitions of psychopathology/abnormal behaviour encompasses?

Answer 2

frequency: behaviour is infrequent
violation of norms: behaviour threatens norms
personal distress: behaviour causes distress
disability or dysfunction: behaviour leads to reduction in capacity/ability
unexpectedness: behaviour not in line with life events

Question 3

Overall structure of clinical psychology process?

Answer 3

initial assessment
case formulation
treatment plan
implement plan
monitoring progress
prepare for closure
closure

Question 4

What non-verbal signs should we consider when with clients? 5

Answer 4

bodily behaviour (slouched etc)
eye behaviour (avoiding)
emotional tone (discordant?)
physiological responses (shaking, blushing)
general appearance (hair brushed etc)

Question 5

What presentations should we be cautious of in ourselves?

Answer 5

bodily behaviour (SOLER)
facial expressions (smiling etc)
voice-related behaviour ( tone, pitch, pauses etc)
space (physical distance)
general presentation (disinhibited, play therapy)

Question 6

What is attending behaviour?

Answer 6

Maintaining eye contact, body language etc

Question 7

What is active listening?

Answer 7

staying with the topic and not being influenced by your own bias

Question 8

What are minimal encouragers?

Answer 8

verbal and non-verbal cues (nodding, and then, mmhmm)

Question 9

Paraphrasing?

Answer 9

Can be used to keep focus for both you and client. - keep it content focused

Question 10

Reflecting feelings involves?

Answer 10

Paraphrasing emotions

Question 11

Summarising?

Answer 11

Can use at start, end, or during session (summary of last session, checking in etc)

Question 12

What is concreteness?

Answer 12

Keeping the clients on specifics

Question 13

Role explanation?

Answer 13

Boundaries and duty of care/mandatory reporting

Question 14

Some common issues that psychs do?

Answer 14

Mind reading: disregard what is said - try to figure true meaning
Rehearsing: what you’ll say next
Filtering: listening to some things and not others
Judging: based on content
Advising: advice prematurely - without all info
Placating: too quick to agree
Being too wooden: Trying to remember everything and not showing bias - can lead to looking blunt, no empathy