PSYCH336 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Major Depressive Disorder, American Psychiatric Association, Clinical Supervision
17 Sep 2013
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Clinical psychology broad field of practice and research within the discipline of psychology. Applies psychological principles to: assessment, amelioration, rehabilitation and prevention. Of: psychological distress, disability, dysfunctional behavior and health risk behavior. And: to the enhancement of psychological and physical well-being (some controversy with this point. Therefore, not as much focus on this last point) According to who (2004 stats), about 450m people suffer from mental, neurological and behavioural problems. However, most countries do not allocate sufficient funds to address mental, neurological and behavioural problems. Smith & smith study (in press: prospective data on income and other social indices since. 1968 (35,000 individuals, 5,000 families: in 2007, researchers gathered retrospective self-report of childhood mental illness using structured interviews. However, asking for retrospective self-reports cost may be overestimated as people were over-identified as having a childhood mental illness. Canadian data: 1,828,300 lost days of work in ontario in 1990 due to mental illness, . 4 billion cost to economy per annum (1992)
