PSYCH336 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Personnel Selection, Experimental Psychology, Applied Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH336
• Professor: Pamela Seeds

Document Summary

Clinical psychologists work with individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations: many clinical psychologists work in the domain of mental health. Psychologists amongst top three professionals considered able to care for people living depression and anxiety disorders and to care for people coping with the stress of diagnosis. Activities of clinic al psychologists: relatively constant amount of psychologists engage in assessment and research. Professional activities of clinical psychologists in the united states: Steady rise in provision of psychotherapy following ww2: assessment & diagnosis, psychotherapy, consultation, research, teaching, supervision, administration. Psychologists have full and varied schedules from graduate school onwards. Some assessments focus on the way a social unit functions. Primary service is psychotherapy assessment plays important role in planning, monitoring, and evaluation of intervention symptoms, relationships) Formulating a diagnosis a part of the assessment process. Intervention: majority of clinical psychologists offer psychotherapy, mostly individual therapy.