PSY 5200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clinical Psychology
19 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Clinic vs. Counseling Psychology
Similarities
• Graduates of doctoral level in clinical and counseling are eligible for the same benefits.
• Both types of programs prepare psychologists to provide health care services.
Differences
• Size: Clinical psychology programs are more numerous than counseling psychology.
• Location: clinical programs are almost always housed in departments or schools of
psychology. Counseling programs are located in a variety of departments and divisions.
• Professional Activities: Both devote the bulk of their day to psychotherapy, teaching,
research, and supervision. Clinical psychologists tend to work with more seriously
disturbed populations and are more likely ained in projective assessment. Where
counseling graduates work with healthier, less pathological situations.
• Theoretical Orientations: Both divisions braced the eclectic/integrative orientation and
cognitive orientation. However, clinical psychologists more favor behavioral and
psychoanalytic.
• Employment settings: Counseling psychologists are more likely to be found in university
counseling centers, where as clinicians are more frequently in hospital settings.
• Graduate admissions: Clinical has higher verbal and quantitative scores.
Research Areas
• Counseling programs provided research training in human diversity and professional
issues. Clinical offers more research opportunities in psychopathological populations
and medical and hospital settings.
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Document Summary
Similarities: graduates of doctoral level in clinical and counseling are eligible for the same benefits, both types of programs prepare psychologists to provide health care services. Differences: size: clinical psychology programs are more numerous than counseling psychology, location: clinical programs are almost always housed in departments or schools of psychology. Counseling programs are located in a variety of departments and divisions: professional activities: both devote the bulk of their day to psychotherapy, teaching, research, and supervision. Clinical psychologists tend to work with more seriously disturbed populations and are more likely ained in projective assessment. Where counseling graduates work with healthier, less pathological situations: theoretical orientations: both divisions braced the eclectic/integrative orientation and cognitive orientation. However, clinical psychologists more favor behavioral and psychoanalytic: employment settings: counseling psychologists are more likely to be found in university counseling centers, where as clinicians are more frequently in hospital settings. Graduate admissions: clinical has higher verbal and quantitative scores.
