PS381 Midterm 2025/2026 Exam
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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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Questions with 100% Correct Answers |
Latest Update
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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