[PSYCH 257] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 30 pages long Study Guide!

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: anapoleski

Document Summary

Clinical psychologists- initially trained in general psychology and then receive graduate training in the application of this knowledge to the understanding, diagnosis and amelioration of disorders of thinking and behaviour. Psychiatrists- trained in medicine prior to doing specialized training in dealing with mental disorders. Training focuses on diagnosis and medical treatment that emphasize the use of pharmalogical agents in managing mental disorders. Hippocrates was the first person to distinguish mental health diseases from physical diseases he rejected that super natural causes caused mental illness, instead he thought that all mental disorders had natural causes. Hippocrates was the first to describe hysteria which is now commonly known as conversion disorder. Which was psychologically induced blindness, deafness or other apparent defects in perceptual or bodily processes. Single factor explanation: attempts to trace the origins of a particular disorder to one factor. Degenerative theory: deviations from normal functioning are transmitted by hereditary processes and that these deviations progressively degenerate over generations.