Examination of Clinical Psychology Sarah Lopez PSY 480 December 3‚ 2012 Carla Wright Examination of Clinical Psychology Clinical psychology has a full history that dates back to the early days of Greek philosophy. The combination of philosophy‚ current psychology and science has created a specific discipline in clinical psychology. Research continues to improve and evolve this branch of psychology. There are certain distinctions that set clinical psychology apart from other areas of this
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Clinical Reflective Journal The first day I visited psychiatric ward‚ I felt nervous and excited because of the psychiatric ward which is totally different from general ward. I sensed that all patients who are walking in the corridor and some of them keep murmuring‚ and those behaviors I seen are seldom appearing in the general ward. However‚ after I found that they can communicate with others normally and have no aggressive behavior after approaching the patients. I learnt we should establish
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Examination of Clinical Psychology PSY/480 April 22‚ 2013 Examination of Clinical Psychology Clinical Psychology has been a part of history from the Greek philosophers to Sigmund Freud. It is still being updated today using science to draw information from along with the philosophical aspects. With the exploration of new scientific data‚ there have been clinical interventions in psychology and how to treat the human condition. There are distinct differences between clinical psychology and other
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Application of Clinical Psychology Transferencefocused psychotherapy (TFP) is an intervention‚ which is according to Stern and Yeomans (n.d.) “grounded in contemporary psychoanalytic theory” with the psychoanalytic thinking having much to offer in the understanding and treatment of individuals with personality disorders. Treatment guidelines created for TFP in the form of a manual. According to Stern and Yeomans (n.d.) at the time of the article TFP demonstrated efficacy with two randomized
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Clinical Experience Reflection Journal Name: Date: Week 1. Choose one patient (new mother‚ newborn‚ or pregnant/laboring woman) and identify the priority problem. What did you contribute toward resolving or easing the problem? N/A for this week 2. Provide an example of an incident during clinical that reinforced the theory you have learned in OB lectures. An incident that reinforced what I have learned in lecture was the postpartum hemorrhage simulation. I learned how chaotic
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Y. (2011). Towards a Cultural-Clinical Psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass‚ 5(12)‚ 960-975. Cultural psychology research requests a move past depiction to clarification of group variety. As far as concerns its‚ clinical psychology demands the significance of unique individuals‚ while likewise broadening the scope of human variety. Cultural–clinical psychology incorporates these methodologies‚ opening up new lines of request. Clinical psychology is concerned both with depicting
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Clinical Versus Counseling Psychology: What’s the Diff? by John C. Norcross - University of Scranton‚ Fields of Psychology Graduate School The majority of psychology students applying to graduate school are interested in clinical work‚ and approximately half of all graduate degrees in psychology are awarded in the subfields of clinical and counseling psychology (Mayne‚ Norcross‚ & Sayette‚ 2000). But deciding on a health care specialization in psychology gets complicated. The urgent question facing
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What is clinical psychology? What do clinical psychologists do? How much do they make a year? What stress is put on them daily? Clinical psychology is a professional specialty concerned with diagnosing and treating diseases of the brain‚ emotional disturbance‚ and behavior problems. Basically‚ what clinical psychologists do is hold sessions‚ usually weekly‚ with patients‚ or clients to diagnose and treat their emotional or mental illness via interviews and tests. On a daily basis‚ they take part
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Examination of Clinical Psychology PSY/480 September 23‚ 2013 Amy McCall Examination of Clinical Psychology History of Clinical Psychology Early conceptions of psychology derived from the Greeks. The ancient Greek way of understanding disease transported thought outside the control of the Gods and toward social‚ biological and psychological effects exchanged between the mind and body (Plante‚ 2011‚ p. 33). Aristotle‚ Hippocrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle each believed that the "spirit or
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Cultural and Clinical Psychology Between Cultural and Clinical Psychology there is an intersection of two academic traditional methods of study and thought. The scientific field of cultural psychology represents an ongoing evolution of decades upon decades of research and effort by psychologist in an effort to understand the ways in which ones culture shapes the individuals mental health and physical health (American Psychological Association‚ 2012). Cultural psychology moves beyond the confines
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