PSYCO335 Lecture 2: Lecture 2: What is Clinical Psychology?

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO335
• Professor: Jaylene Brinker

Document Summary

Clinical psychology: focuses on developing assessment & intervention strategies to deal w/ social, emotional, developmental and behavioural problems (on the individual level) Code of ethics: respect for the dignity of persons, responsible caring, integrity in relationships, responsibility to society. Evidence-based: it is a practice model which involves combining info from research and collected data on the patient, as well as the clinician"s professional experience as well as the patient"s preferences in terms of health care options. Thinks that they should take the outliers and non-responders etc. , and write up case studies on them. This could be useful for clinical researchers and clinical psychologists when dealing with unique/outlier patients: rare disorders of problems (see above) In cases where there isn"t really any relevant treatment research, you do the best with what you have/a consensus among experts, etc. You could also use evidence that is related to similar disorders or the same disorder in a different population.