PSYCO335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Meta-Analysis, Walter Mischel, Anna Freud

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO335
• Professor: Jaylene Brinker

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Because their code of ethics obliges psychiatrists to provide the best available information about service options, the authors argued that psychiatrists must adopt the ebp model. Counselling psychology: traditionally, the focus of clinical psychology is on the assessment and treatment of psychopathology, while counselling psychologists provide services to individuals who are dealing with normal changes in life. In canada, the distinction between clinical and counselling psychology is becoming less and less meaningful. School psychology: historically, school psychology emphasizes services related specifically to the learning of children and adolescents, but their work now addresses students" mental health and life circumstances more broadly. Psychiatry: psychiatrists specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illnesses, psychiatric training deals with physiological and biochemical systems, and emphasizes biological functioning and abnormalities. Isaac marks played a prominent role in the development of cognitive behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders.