Clinical Psychology correct answers Involves rigorous study and applied practice directed toward understanding and improving the psychological facts of the human experience, including but not limited to issues or problems of behavior, emotions, or intellect
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Clinical Psychology correct answers Involves rigorous study and applied practice directed
toward understanding and improving the psychological facts of the human experience, including
but not limited to issues or problems of behavior, emotions, or intellect
Scientist-practitioner model (Boulder model) correct answers Psychotherapy and research blend
Practitioner-scholar model (Vial model) correct answers More training in applied clinical skills
and less focus on research (PsyD)
Clinical Scientist model correct answers very strong research model
Three Graduate program models correct answers Clinical Scientist model, Practitioner-scholar
model, and Scientist-practitioner model
Predoctoral internship correct answers One year but documented in hours; best are APA
approved)
Postdoctoral internship correct answers One year under licensed psychologist
Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) correct answers Minimum score is
500 (35% do not pass first time)
Compare PhD programs to PsyD programs correct answers - PhD: Research emphasis
- PsyD: Enroll more students, Accept students with lower GRE scores and GPAs, have less
funding for students
- Graduate students who pursue practice-related careers rather than academic or research-related
careers
Requirements for being licensed as a clinical psychologist correct answers - Ph.D. or Psy.D
- Postdoctoral training (one year under licensed psychologist
- EPPP (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) minimum score is 500 (35% do
not pass first time)
- Continuing education units (attending workshops, taking courses, undergoing additional
specialized training, passing exams over specific readings, etc)
Primary area of employment of the clinical psychologist correct answers - Private Practice (most
common)
Hospitals
Medical Settings
Community Mental Health Centers
Universities
Veterans Affairs
, What clinical psychologists do for employment? correct answers Psychotherapy (foremost),
Assessment and Testing, Teaching/Supervision, Prescribe medication (in some states)
Counseling psychologists v. clinical psychologists correct answers Clinical: work with more
seriously disturbed populations; tend to work more often in settings such as hospitals and
inpatient psychiatric units; tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly
Counseling Psychologists: work with less seriously disturbed individuals; tend to work more
often in university counseling centers; tend to endorse humanistic/client-centered approaches
more strongly
Psychiatrist v. psychologist correct answers Psychiatrists: medical school; prescribe medications
Social workers v. psychologists correct answers - Social Workers: psychotherapy and transition
to the community; typically earn a master's degree; trained to use social services and programs to
help individuals
- Psychologists: Often earn PhD; trained to use research and evaluation to help individuals
School psychologists v. clinical psychologist correct answers - School: work in schools, day-care
centers, correctional facilities; frequently conduct psychological testing to determine diagnoses;
use and develop programs designed to meet the educational and emotional needs of students
- Clinical: work with more seriously disturbed populations; tend to work more often in settings
such as hospitals and inpatient psychiatric units; tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly
Professional counselors correct answers Offer career, school, addiction, couple/family, college
counseling; licensed professional counselors (LPCs); work generally involves counseling, with
very little emphasis on psychological testing or conducting research; serve wide varieties of
clients in community agencies
William Tuke (early pioneer) correct answers (England) - devoted his life to improving
conditions in mental hospitals and raised funds to open the York Retreat (model for psychiatric
hospitals)
Philippe Pinel (early pioneer) correct answers (France) - liberated the mentally ill; went to great
lengths to convince contemporaries that the mentally ill deserved compassion and hope rather
than maltreatment and scorn; advocated for the staff to include in their treatment of each patient
a case history, ongoing treatment notes, and an illness classification of some kind
Eli Todd (early pioneer) correct answers (America) - physician in Connecticut who opened the
Retreat in Hartford-allowed patients to have significant input into their treatment
Dorothea Dix (early pioneer) correct answers Established more than 30 state institutions in the
U.S.; traveled city to city, collected data on their treatment of the mentally ill, and presented the
data to local community leaders and persuaded them to treat the mentally ill more adequately
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