Clinical Psychology - Exam 1 Study
Guide 2023 Update
Clinical Psychology - Involves rigorous study and applied practice directed toward
understanding
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including but not limited to issues or problems of behavior, emotions, or intellect
Scientist-practitioner model (Boulder model) - Psychotherapy and research blend
Practitioner-scholar model (Vial model) - More training in applied clinical skills and less
focus on research (PsyD)
Clinical Scientist model - very strong research model
Three Graduate program models - Clinical Scientist model, Practitioner-scholar model,
and Scientist-practitioner model
Predoctoral internship - One year but documented in hours; best are APA approved)
Postdoctoral internship - One year under licensed psychologist
Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) - Minimum score is 500
(35% do not pass first time)
Compare PhD programs to PsyD programs - - PhD: Research emphasis
- PsyD: Enroll more students, Accept students with lower GRE scores and GPAs, have
less funding for students
- Graduate students who pursue practice-related careers rather than academic or
research-related careers
Requirements for being licensed as a clinical psychologist - - Ph.D. or Psy.D
- Postdoctoral training (one year under licensed psychologist
- EPPP (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) minimum score is 500
(35% do not pass first time)
- Continuing education units (attending workshops, taking courses, undergoing
additional specialized training, passing exams over specific readings, etc)
Primary area of employment of the clinical psychologist - - Private Practice (most
common)
Hospitals
Medical Settings
Community Mental Health Centers
Universities
Veterans Affairs
What clinical psychologists do for employment? - Psychotherapy (foremost),
Assessment and Testing, Teaching/Supervision, Prescribe medication (in some states)
Counseling psychologists v. clinical psychologists - Clinical: work with more seriously
disturbed populations; tend to work more often in settings such as hospitals and
inpatient psychiatric units; tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly
Counseling Psychologists: work with less seriously disturbed individuals; tend to work
more often in university counseling centers; tend to endorse humanistic/client-centered
approaches more strongly
Psychiatrist v. psychologist - Psychiatrists: medical school; prescribe medications
Social workers v. psychologists - - Social Workers: psychotherapy and transition to the
community; typically earn a master's degree; trained to use social services and
programs to help individuals
- Psychologists: Often earn PhD; trained to use research and evaluation to help
individuals
School psychologists v. clinical psychologist - - School: work in schools, day-care
centers, correctional facilities; frequently conduct psychological testing to determine
diagnoses; use and develop programs designed to meet the educational and emotional
needs of students
- Clinical: work with more seriously disturbed populations; tend to work more often in
settings such as hospitals and inpatient psychiatric units; tend to endorse behaviorism
more strongly
Professional counselors - Offer career, school, addiction, couple/family, college
counseling; licensed professional counselors (LPCs); work generally involves
counseling, with very little emphasis on psychological testing or conducting research;
serve wide varieties of clients in community agencies
William Tuke (early pioneer) - (England) - devoted his life to improving conditions in
mental hospitals and raised funds to open the York Retreat (model for psychiatric
hospitals)
Philippe Pinel (early pioneer) - (France) - liberated the mentally ill; went to great lengths
to convince contemporaries that the mentally ill deserved compassion and hope rather
than maltreatment and scorn; advocated for the staff to include in their treatment of
each patient a case history, ongoing treatment notes, and an illness classification of
some kind
Eli Todd (early pioneer) - (America) - physician in Connecticut who opened the Retreat
in Hartford-allowed patients to have significant input into their treatment
Dorothea Dix (early pioneer) - Established more than 30 state institutions in the U.S.;
traveled city to city, collected data on their treatment of the mentally ill, and presented... [Show Less]