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This detailed midterm exam prep for PS381 (2025/2026) includes 100+ expertly answered questions covering the full range of foundational clinical psychology topics. Content includes definitions of clinical psychology, history of mental health treatment, DSM evolution, intelligence models (e.g., Gardner, Sternberg, Spearman), psychological assessment, heuristics in clinical reasoning, and ethical principles in practice. Ideal for students in Psychology, Mental Health, Counseling, Social Work, and Pre-Med programs, especially those focusing on abnormal psychology, psychometrics, or professional ethics. Keywords: clinical psychology, counseling psychology, DSM-5, psychological assessment, intelligence testing, Spearman’s g, Gardner's multiple intelligences, Sternberg's triarchic theory, biopsychosocial model, MMPI-2, Beck Depression Inventory, SCL-90-R, heuristics, cognitive bias, ethical standards, evidence-based practice, psychiatric history, IQ tests, projective testing, WAIS-IV, psychometrics

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What is clinical psychology? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Application of psychological

knowledge to alleviate distress and promote well-being


clinical psych principles - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Respect for dignity of persons


-Responsible caring

-integrity in relationships

-Responsibility to society


Evidence-based Practice in Psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-CP has now moved

towards require to base work on evidence

-Emphasis on utilizing data from research, patient, and professional experience

-The importance of informing patients about options for assessment, prevention, or

intervention service


clinical psychologist - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Regulations vary by province and state

,-Diagnose

-Treat

-Testify in court

-Self-supervising and governing


consuelling psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Target populations


-Entry into Graduate programs

-Can obtain registration as a clinical psychologist


Social Worker - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-BSW or MSW in social work


-Flexible scope of practise

-Therapy with groups, individuals, families

-Support groups

-Social skills training groups (e.g. schizophrenia)

-Help with practical arrangements -housing, home care, applications for ODSP,

Ontario Works


Social Service Worker - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-College diploma program (SSW)


-Limited job opportunities, but varies with location



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,Psychiatric Nurse - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Work in psychiatry units


-Continuing care programs

-Run support groups

-Addictions

-Range of administrative/manaement positions in health care


are mental health services covered by health plans - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔very minimal

if any


are mental health services covered by OHIP - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔they are not


Hippocrates - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Origins of biopsychosocial view


Benjamin Rush - 1745-1813 Psychiatry - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Espoused

humanitarian values

-Believed that mental illness was due to brain disorder, not demon possession

But used inhumane methods

--Bloodletting, purging, "tranquilizing chair," and other devices


Phillippe Pinel - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔France in the late 1790s unchained psychiatric

patients.



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, Dorothea Dix (1802-1897) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Improved conditions for the poor in

asylums in the US


Lobotomy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1936-1960s


~ 100,000 performed worldwide

-Women were giving hysterectomies as late as the 1960s in a failed attempt to treat

depression and anxiety

(brain surgery treatment)


Insulin coma therapy and early ECT - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-used on people with

schizophrenia

-In 1957, controlled randomized study showed no improvements with ICT

-ECT Initially used without anesthesia or muscle relaxants


Emil Kraeplin - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Thought biological factors cause mental

disorders, meds were incapable of treating those disorders

Focused on studying disorders and developing a classification system

Identified schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and used the term syndromes to

indicate that certain symptoms occur together

His work was an early precursor to the DSM


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