Intro to Clinical Psych Exam 1
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How is clinical psych defined? - ANSWERDifficult; involves rigorous study and
applied practice directed toward understanding and improving the psychological
facets of the human experience, including but not limited to issues or problems of
behavior, emotions, or intellect
What does graduate training usually involve to become a clinical psychologist? -
ANSWERGet a doctorate, advance coursework, qualifying exams, clinical training,
research training
Predoctoral Internship - ANSWER- Takes place at the end of doctoral training
programs (before PhD or PsyD is awarded)
- A full year of supervised clinical experience in an applied setting
- An apprenticeship of sorts, to transition from student to professional
What requirements exist post-graduation? - ANSWERClinical (1-2 years of
postdoctoral training for licensure), getting licensed and continuing education
requirements to stay current in field and maintain licensure
scientist-practitioner model - ANSWERBalances practice and science
Most dominant and still most common
scholar-practitioner model - ANSWERemphasizes clinical practice (led to PsyD)
Clinical Scientist Model - ANSWEREmphasis on empirically supported treatments
and on scientific training (even more so than the Boulder model), would prepare
individual for research/academic career
PhD - ANSWEREmphasis on research, smaller classes and faculty to student ratio,
more full-time facility, higher admissions standards
social worker - ANSWERConnect individuals with social resources and arranged
vocational and residential placements
William Turke (1732-1822) - ANSWERFounded the York Retreat in England
Philippe Pinel - ANSWERWorked to reform mental health care in France
(encouraged record keeping)
Eli Todd - ANSWERAdvocated for the humane treatment of the mentally ill in the US
PsyD - ANSWEREmphasis on psychological service, more likely to be housed in
free-standing, independent, schools, lower admission standards, offer less funding,
, larger classes, lower rate of successfully placing student in APA accredited
internship
What do grad schools prefer in applicants? - ANSWERHigh GPA, GRE score,
research experience, clinically relevant experience (internship or volunteer), letters of
recommendation, relevant coursework
What does the professional activity of supervision involve? - ANSWERTeaching
graduate students (takes many forms)
What professional activity do clinical psychologists tend to engage in most? -
ANSWERpsychotherapy
Paychiatry - ANSWERDifferent training (licensed physicians) and less time engaging
in psychotherapy
counseling psychology - ANSWERTreat problems of adjustment or minor forms of
maladjustment
School Psychology - ANSWERPrimarily conducts psychological testing to diagnosis
learning disabilities
Dorthea Dix - ANSWERHer efforts resulted in the establishment of more than 30
state institutions for the mentally ill in the US
Lightner Witmer - ANSWERThe founder of the field of clinical psychology, the first
psychological clinic for children difficulty learning in school
Emil Kraepelin - ANSWERPublished 1st textbook on psychiatry; dementia praexcox
as a predecessor of schizophrenia
exogenous disorder - ANSWERcaused by external factors
endogenous disorders - ANSWERcaused by internal factors
Alfred Binet's assessment of intelligence - ANSWERInterested in helping children
with learning disabilities; established to help Parisian public school system identify
students who would not benefit from instruction in a regular classroom
-1st norm-referenced test of intelligence
-adapted by researchers and clinicians interested in intelligence and classifying
children with learning disabilities
-predecessor of modern intelligence testing
What historical event created more of a demand for practicing clinical psychologists
and formalized graduate training? - ANSWERWWII
projective personality tests - ANSWERindividual is asked to respond to ambiguous
stimuli- assumption, people will project feelings, needs onto the ambiguous stimuli
and does not reflect other cultures, not really good to translate it
-ink blot and TAT
CORRECT 100%
How is clinical psych defined? - ANSWERDifficult; involves rigorous study and
applied practice directed toward understanding and improving the psychological
facets of the human experience, including but not limited to issues or problems of
behavior, emotions, or intellect
What does graduate training usually involve to become a clinical psychologist? -
ANSWERGet a doctorate, advance coursework, qualifying exams, clinical training,
research training
Predoctoral Internship - ANSWER- Takes place at the end of doctoral training
programs (before PhD or PsyD is awarded)
- A full year of supervised clinical experience in an applied setting
- An apprenticeship of sorts, to transition from student to professional
What requirements exist post-graduation? - ANSWERClinical (1-2 years of
postdoctoral training for licensure), getting licensed and continuing education
requirements to stay current in field and maintain licensure
scientist-practitioner model - ANSWERBalances practice and science
Most dominant and still most common
scholar-practitioner model - ANSWERemphasizes clinical practice (led to PsyD)
Clinical Scientist Model - ANSWEREmphasis on empirically supported treatments
and on scientific training (even more so than the Boulder model), would prepare
individual for research/academic career
PhD - ANSWEREmphasis on research, smaller classes and faculty to student ratio,
more full-time facility, higher admissions standards
social worker - ANSWERConnect individuals with social resources and arranged
vocational and residential placements
William Turke (1732-1822) - ANSWERFounded the York Retreat in England
Philippe Pinel - ANSWERWorked to reform mental health care in France
(encouraged record keeping)
Eli Todd - ANSWERAdvocated for the humane treatment of the mentally ill in the US
PsyD - ANSWEREmphasis on psychological service, more likely to be housed in
free-standing, independent, schools, lower admission standards, offer less funding,
, larger classes, lower rate of successfully placing student in APA accredited
internship
What do grad schools prefer in applicants? - ANSWERHigh GPA, GRE score,
research experience, clinically relevant experience (internship or volunteer), letters of
recommendation, relevant coursework
What does the professional activity of supervision involve? - ANSWERTeaching
graduate students (takes many forms)
What professional activity do clinical psychologists tend to engage in most? -
ANSWERpsychotherapy
Paychiatry - ANSWERDifferent training (licensed physicians) and less time engaging
in psychotherapy
counseling psychology - ANSWERTreat problems of adjustment or minor forms of
maladjustment
School Psychology - ANSWERPrimarily conducts psychological testing to diagnosis
learning disabilities
Dorthea Dix - ANSWERHer efforts resulted in the establishment of more than 30
state institutions for the mentally ill in the US
Lightner Witmer - ANSWERThe founder of the field of clinical psychology, the first
psychological clinic for children difficulty learning in school
Emil Kraepelin - ANSWERPublished 1st textbook on psychiatry; dementia praexcox
as a predecessor of schizophrenia
exogenous disorder - ANSWERcaused by external factors
endogenous disorders - ANSWERcaused by internal factors
Alfred Binet's assessment of intelligence - ANSWERInterested in helping children
with learning disabilities; established to help Parisian public school system identify
students who would not benefit from instruction in a regular classroom
-1st norm-referenced test of intelligence
-adapted by researchers and clinicians interested in intelligence and classifying
children with learning disabilities
-predecessor of modern intelligence testing
What historical event created more of a demand for practicing clinical psychologists
and formalized graduate training? - ANSWERWWII
projective personality tests - ANSWERindividual is asked to respond to ambiguous
stimuli- assumption, people will project feelings, needs onto the ambiguous stimuli
and does not reflect other cultures, not really good to translate it
-ink blot and TAT
