CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY NOTES NO.

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST 2. DIAGNOSIS AND ASSESSMENT

Deals with extensive problems:
o DEPRESSION
o ANXIETY
o PSYCHOSIS
o PERSONALITY DISORDERS
o LEARNING DISABILITIES
o JD
o SEXUAL DIFFICULTIES
o VOCATIONAL PROBLEMS
CLINICAL ACTIVITIES OF CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGIST:
1. PSYCHOTHERAPY
 Most frequent activity and where effort is most
devoted
 Therapy vary among different dimensions
 One on one relationship
 Includes COUPLE, FAMILY and GROUP
THERAPY
 There are more women than male therapist
 HOW DOEST IT WORK?
 Client lies on the couch or sits adjacent to
the therapist desk.
 Therapy involves mainly:
- Search for insights
- Origin of the problem
- The purpose served by one’s
undesirable behavior.
 Consist of relationship between client &
therapist designed to produce an
atmosphere of trust that will help dissolve
the clients debilitating defenses.
 Forms of therapy are largely behavioral so
that clients learn new and more satisfying
modes of adjustments.
 GOALS OF THERAPY:
- Major changes in behavior
- Patients desire help only with
troublesome fear that prevents them
from achieving certain goals.
 Assessment especially testing is the chief
element in the clinician’s professional
identity.
 The most critical part of the Clinical
Psychologist role
 All practicing clinician engage in assessment:
- Testing
- Observation
- Interviewing
To better understand the individual and a
more informed decision can be made or that
most desirable course action is undertaken.
3. TEACHING
 Devoted to graduate and undergraduate
education and teaches advance course in
psychology
 Classroom lecture type and supervisory level
 Giving seminars, workshops, and
orientations on various topics for police,
volunteers, ministers, et al.
4. CLINICAL SUPERVISION
 Another form of teaching
 Typically involves a one on one teaching
 Group approaches
 Non-classroom varieties of interactions
- Case management reports
- Conferences
- Discussions
 Supervisions in the clinical setting
 “One learns by doing” under the controlled
and secure conditions of a trainee-supervisor
relationship
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5. RESEARCH EMPLOYMENT SITES FOR CLINICAL

 Scientist-practitioner model PSYCHOLOGIST
CP must be trained both as scientist and
o Psychiatric hospitals
practitioner.
o General Hospitals
 Research studies deals with:
o Outpatient clinic
- Searching for etiology of
o Community Mental Health Center
psychopathology
o Medical Schools
- Development and validation of
o Private Practice
assessment devices.
o University
- Evaluation of therapy techniques.
 All research issues are found in the Journal of
consulting and Clinical Psychology THEORETICAL ORIENTATION
o BEHAVIORAL
6. CONSULTATION o COGNITIVE
 Increase effectiveness of those to whom o PSYCHODYNAMIC
one’s effort is directed by imparting to them o HUMANISTIC
some degree of expertise. o EXISTENTIAL
o ECLECTIC/INTEGRATIVE
o ROGERIAN
7. ADMINISTRATION o FAMILY SYSTEMS
 Doing Administrative work in universities,
ET. aL
organizations, hospitals that may need their
expertise in supervisory level in an
organization.
 Three Major specialist in Mental Hospitals
 Psychiatrist
 Clinical Psychologist
 Psy, D.
- A professional degree with more
clinical than research specialization
- One year internship in psychiatric
hospital or mental health center or
facility.