CAS PS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Developmental Psychopathology, Major Depressive Disorder, Psychopathology
13 Mar 2017
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The ph. d"s clinical and counseling psychologists (5 years for degree) The psy. d. "s: clinical and counseling doctors of psychology (5 years for degree) M. d. "s: psychiatrics (6-7 years for degree) (prescribes drugs) Conducting research that lead to new procedures useful in practice. Keep up with latest research in the field; be a consumer of the science. Evaluate your own assessments or treatments to see if they work. Conduct research that produces new treatments or ideas for mental disorders. Don"t let people get caught up in fads or media cures . Clinical description : aims to distinguish clinically significant dysfunction from common. Describe prevalence and incidence of disorders: how many people in population have human experience disorder?= prevalence. How many new cases occur during a given period of time= incidence. Describe course of disorders: episodic, time-limited, or chronic. Describe onset of disorders: acute vs. insidious (so you know what to expect) Acute= someone dies and you become depressed.
