PSYCO335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clinical Psychology, Standardized Test, Fallacy
16 Jan 2017
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Balance between reading everything and only reading reviews. No matter where you sit there will be pros and cons. Up to the early 1900"s our history is technically medical or psychiatric history. Psychiatry was blooming, and most tings are done by mds. Clinical psychology really gets its footing as a distinct discipline with its skills and knowledge in testing. These combine to produce a focus on and value of empiricism and research. The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his report. Well before paul meehl"s critique of clinical decision making. People were aware that as humans that being objective wasn"t possible. Living a di erent paradigm than you are living, and you can only see from your own perspective. Recognize even our best attempts may be biased. Every psych has there own oriantation therapy, this is e ected by education, common sense, ect.
