PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16.1: Residential Treatment Center, Deinstitutionalisation, Community Psychology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

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Clinical psychologists - have received ph. d. level of training, and are able to formally diagnose and treat mental health issues ranging from the everyday and mild to the chronic and severe. Counseling psychologists - are mental health professionals who typically work with people needing help with more common problems such as stress, coping, and mild forms of anxiety and depression, rather than severe mental disorders (masters or ph. d. ) Psychiatrists - medical doctors who specialize in mental health and who are allowed to diagnose and treat mental disorders through prescribing medications. Throughout much of human history, people experiencing severe disorders were often separated from society physically removed from the city or locked in an asylum. As patients" symptoms became more treatable, a society-wide movement toward deinstitutionalization occurred: whereby mental health patients were released back into their communities, generally after having their symptoms alleviated through medication.