PSY 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Traumatic Brain Injury, Suicidal Ideation, Mental Disorder
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Focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormal behavior: clinical psychologists receive training in psychological assessment and psychotherapy, they are employed in hospitals, mental health centers, independent practice, and academia. Counseling psychology: branch of psychology that shares similar concerns with clinical psychology but focuses more on the "everyday" concerns of human life, marriage, family, academics, and career, tools employed by both branches of psych overlap considerably. Incidence: the rate of new occurrences of a particular disorder or condition in a particular population. Internal mechanisms that break down or fail are viewed as having been acquired through the darwinian process of natural selection: the attribution of disorder entails: Fatalism: the belief that what happens in life is largely beyond a person"s control. Psychometric aspects of the interview: conclusions about an interviewee can be evaluated for their reliability and validity. Inter-rater reliability for interviewee data could be represented by the degree of agreement between the different interviewer"s conclusions.
