PS381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychopathology, Congenital Disorder
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What is clinical pscyhology involves research, teaching and services relevant to applications of principles, methods and procedures. Psychiatrists physician, medical tradition, mental health professionalism, account psychopathology as a mental illness with discrete causes best remedied with medication, medical degree, apprenticeship clinical psychologists receive extensive training in psychotherapy. Counselling psychologists group or individual counselling, normal or moderately maladjusted people principle method of assessment is interview. Most frequent settings include education, also in hospitals and rehab centers the can administer preventative treatment, consultation, development of outreach programs, vocational counseling, short-term counselling. Clinical social workers can conduct psychotherapy counselling, knowledge of human behaviour, case history, interview, deal with social factors, family. School psychologists promote intellectual, emotion and social growth of school-aged children. Psychiatric nurses those trained to assits professional mental health workers are called paraprofessionals. The clinical psychologist psychotherapy, diagnosis and assessment therapy/intervention diagnosis and assessment teaching, research, clinical supervision.
