PSY 3511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Child Abuse, Clifford Whittingham Beers, Counseling Psychology
Document Summary
Hippocrates was ahead of his time by believing that mental illness was a physical manifestation in the body and not because of some foul beings that had possessed the person. Clifford beers wrote a book an his own experiences as a mentally ill person and inspired people to look more closely into how mentally ill people were being treated. Counseling psychology has officially been around for about 40 years, beginning in the. Psychiatrists are trained more in all areas of health and focus more on medication as they have to go to medical school. Counseling psychologists don"t go to medical school and focus more on individual and group therapies. Ethics are moral principles that govern the behavior of a person or group. Personal ethical code individualized within each psychologist: apa ethics code. Criticized for being overly legalistic, too static, too difficult and cumbersome. The minimum level of professional practice i. e. keeping confidentiality: aspirational ethics.
