PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Prescription, Clinical Psychology, Master Of Social Work
Document Summary
Chapter #1 introduction: definitional and historical considerations, and canada"s mental health system. Psychopathology field concerned with the nature and development of abnormal behaviour, thoughts, and feelings. Abnormal behaviour characteristics such as statistical infrequency, violation of norms, personal distress, disability or dysfunction, and unexpectedness. Normal curve places the majority of people in the middle as far as any particular characteristic is concerned; very few people fall at either extreme. Although abnormal behaviour is infrequent, so, too, is great athletic talent; therefore, infrequency is not a sufficient definition of abnormal behaviour. Abnormal behaviour produces disability or dysfunction, but some diagnoses, such as transvestism, are not clearly disabilities. Clinicians various professionals authorized to provide psychological services. Psychoanalyst received specialized training at a psychoanalytic institute. Social worker obtains an m. s. w. degree. Counselling psychologists similar to clinical psychologists but less emphasis on research and the more severe forms of psychopathology: prescriptive authority debate.
