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PSY 330 Exam 1 - Knight – CSU fullysolved
Clinical Psychology Definition - correct answer ✔✔a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and
treats people with psychological problems or disorders
Clinical Psychology Evolution: Original - correct answer ✔✔Original: started as just research (didn't meet
with clients) then --> Lightner Witmer (1907) moved study (research) to applied science to help people
with mental health issues : similar to MEDICINE, EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY
Clinical Psychology Evolution: More recent - correct answer ✔✔Recently: still a branch of psychology
that studies, assess, and treats people with psychological problems or disorders using SCIENCE, THEORY,
and PRACTICE
aim to understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment and promote human adaptation and personal
development
Lightner Witmer (1907) - correct answer ✔✔Moved the field of psychology from research to applied
science to help people with mental health issues / The founder of the field of clinical psychology and the
first journal devoted to clinical psychology
HISTORICAL difference between clinical and counseling psychology - correct answer ✔✔Clinical:
- psychopathology
- lower patient functioning
- employed in hospitals, psychiatric facilities
- based in psychology departments
- research on clinical disorders
Counseling:
- adjustment
, - higher patient functioning (going to school, employed, etc.)
- employed in university counseling and community clinics
- based in education departments
- research on non-dominant people groups and academic vocational issues
CURRENT difference between clinical and counseling psychology - correct answer ✔✔Clinical:
- expanded to include sub-clinical "adjustments"
Counseling:
- taking on more clinically severe mental health issues
both:
- diagnose using scientifically-based interventions
- deal with people who are having difficulty functioning on some level
- need to understand, assess, and treat diagnostically clinical and subclinical issues
What do clinical/counseling psychology do? - correct answer ✔✔-PSYCHOTHERAPY (most prevalent)
- diagnosis/assessment
- teaching
- supervision
- research
Pioneers of Clinical Psychology: Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) - correct answer ✔✔- FOUNDED FIRST
PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC
- Called the "liberator of the mentally ill"
- Worked to move mentally ill out of dungeons
- Convinced contemporaries that mentally ill were not possessed by devils
- Created institutions to treat mental health with good care
- Advocated maintenance of patient case history, ongoing treatment notes, and illness classification
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