AS.200.101 Lecture 13: Introduction to Psychology 10.17

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Clinical psychologists are not: mind readers, psychiatrists, counseling psychologists: typically target more normative, well-adjusted populations, clinical social workers: are not trained in providing psychotherapy, are more connected to providing social services, school psychologists, psychiatric nurses. Major subfields: child and adolescent, clinical health, clinical neuropsychology, school, police and public safety, couple and family, forensic, rehabilitation. What is considered to be a mental disorder: typically comes from diagnostic manual: dsm-5, system of classifying psychological disorders that established common definition of mental disorders and specific criteria for each diagnosis. Issue: very hard to define what (cid:498)typical(cid:499) mental behavior is: (cid:498)clinically significant disturbance(cid:499) is a debated term, problems of cultural norms, stressful environments. What criteria are used to diagnose: set of symptoms for individual diagnoses, need to fit a certain number of symptoms. Treatment utilization: only about 50% of those diagnosed seek treatment, significant drop in seeking treatment during young adulthood.

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