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Clinical Psych Ch.1, 3,5, 6, & 9 Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
Accreditation - Answer✔️✔️-A designation bestowed by the APA on psych
training programs that meet acceptable training standards.
Clinical Practicum - Answer✔️✔️-A training experience designed to build
specific clinical skills (in assessment, psychotherapy, etc.). Often, in a
practicum comb academic content, or theory, with practical experience.
Clinical Psych - Answer✔️✔️-A mem. of a profession devoted by a variety of
emotional, behavioral, and or cog diff. Clinical psych may be involved in
numerous activities, including psychotherapy, assessment, and diagnosis,
teaching, supervision, research, consultation, and admin.
Clinical science model - Answer✔️✔️-A clinical psych training model that
emphasizes empirical supported approaches to assessment, prevention ,
and clinical intervention. This model arose from concerns that clinical
psych was not firmly grounded in science.
Clinical social workers - Answer✔️✔️-Mental health proff. trained in
psychiatric diagnosis and individual and group psychotherapy. compared
to psych and psychiatrists, psychiactric social worker's training is relatively
brief, limited to a 2 year master's degree. Are intensly involved in the day-
to-day lives of their patients and focus more on the social and enviromental
factors contributing to their patients diff.
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Counseling Psych - Answer✔️✔️-Psych whose intrests and activities overlap
significantly with those of clinical psych. Traditionally counseling psych
have provided individual and group psychotherapy for normal to
moderatly malajested individuals and have offered edu and occupational
counseling.
Doctoral Degree - Answer✔️✔️-A degree that requires training beyond the
master's degree. In clinical psych, the doctoral degree is usually obtainable
after four years of graduate training in assessment, diagnosis,
psychotherapy, and research, plus a 1-yr internship.
(GRE) Graduate Record Examination - Answer✔️✔️-A test freq required of
applicants to graduate training programs. Assess quantitative, verbal, and
analytic abilities. In addition, the GRE offers subjective tests for several
disciplines, including psych.
Health Psych - Answer✔️✔️-Psych whose research or practical work focuses
on the prevention of illness, the promotion and maintenance of good
health, or the treatment of individuals with diagnosed medical conditions.
Internship - Answer✔️✔️-An intensive clinical experience required of all
clinical psych students and usually occuring at the very end of their
graduate training. typically internships last 1 yr and involve full-time wk at
independence facility.
Master's degree - Answer✔️✔️-An advanced degree, usually obtainable after
2 yrs of graduate wk. Individuals with masters level training in clinical
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psych wk in a variety of service-delivery settings but may be less likely to
gain professional indep than individuals with doctoral degree.
Paraprofessionals - Answer✔️✔️-Individuals (e.g., crisis hotline wk) who
have been trained to assist professional mental health wk.
Profess. School - Answer✔️✔️-Schools offering advanced training in psych
that emphasizes competance in research many proff. schools are not
affilated with universities and most award the Psy. D. degree.
Psy. D. Degree - Answer✔️✔️-An advanced degree in psych that is emerging
as an alt. to traditional research-oriented Ph. D degrees.
Psychiatrists - Answer✔️✔️-A physician w/intensive training in the
diagnosis and treatment of a variety of mental disorders. Bc of their med
backgrounds, may prescribe meds for the alleuiation of problematic
behavior or psych distress.
Psych clinic - Answer✔️✔️-A clinic operated by a clinical psych training
progra, and staffed by clinical students, faculty. and others. the psych clinic
provides a setting for clinical students to gain practical experience by
offering assesment, therapy, and consultation services to the public.
Academy of Psych clinical science - Answer✔️✔️-
Ambulatory assessment - Answer✔️✔️-
client welfare - Answer✔️✔️-
Cultural competence - Answer✔️✔️-
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