Clinical psychology

Likewise, personality testing is primarily designed based on specific personality theories and are developed empirically through tests that identifies individuals of differing personalities. Some of the most prominent theories from which personality testings’ are derived include; psychodynamic approaches, behavioral approaches, trait, type and state theories, humanistic approaches and empirical approaches. Some techniques for categorizing personality tests were proposed by Koppitz and include…

Sophie is a 21 year old senior attending a mid-size 4year college in Central New York. She transferred from a small rural 4year college. Sophie visited the Student Health Center for HIV/AID testing. Fortunately, she was given a clean bill of health. Sophie was not able to eat well for weeks prior her health examination. She stopped hanging out with her friends, soccer teammates and eventually dropped out of the team. Sophie started skipping class and not participating when she would attend. Her…

My beliefs and thoughts about the practice of counseling have been strengthened in many ways. During my undergraduate experience, some instructors told me that I could not pick an eclectic approach or tell people that I am eclectic when I treat clients. I always assumed it was because each approach was so severally different that taking bits and pieces from each theoretical approach could make the process confusing. The most confusion would arise in choosing which of the client’s issues to…

Interpersonal psychotherapy is considered an empirical psychoanalytic alternative to other techniques of Psychodynamic therapy such as free association, interpretation and etc. “Interpersonal psychotherapy focuses on the relation between the onset of clinical problems and present interpersonal problems. Current social problems are addressed , not enduring…

Each participant was scanned prior to MBSR training and also filled out 3 questionnaires to assess each participant 's emotional levels. The Beck Depression Inventory- Second Edition (BDI-II) was used to assess depression levels and consisted of a clinical cut off if the score was 17 to 20. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was used to assess anxiety levels and the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised (SCL-90-R) was used as a canvassing tool for psychopathology in participants. Training in MBSR was…

Emotive Behavior (REBT), Rational Living Therapy (RTL), Cognitive Therapy (CT) and Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT). The Founder of Cognitive Behavior Therapy is Dr. Albert Ellis and co-founder Aaron Beck, MD of psychiatrist. Dr. Albert Ellis was a clinical a psychologist. Ellis vbvbvbvREBT was developed by Ellis dealing with his own problems during his youth. In the 1950’s…

justifies the need to integrate different therapies to realize the best result. Tursi and Cochran define theoretical integration as the process of bringing together either two or more differing theories, hence leading to the production of super ordinate clinical framework. Guterman and Rudes (2005) further contend that theory integration helps in addressing the…

Anton, is a fourth year clinical psychology student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. While she is in clinical psychology program as a graduate-student at UNC, she also works as a research assistant, where she helps to research how technology can improve mental healthcare for low income families. To get to where she is now she went through three years as a post-doc research assistant at the University of Virginia, the school where she also majored in psychology as an…

Part A Clinical psychology is a unique field of work and it differs from all other mental and health professions. Clinical psychologist differs from other psychology disciplines. Clinical psychologist focus on psychotherapy. Clinical Psychologist work more with seriously disturbed populations more so than the other disciplines (Pomerantz, 2013), working in hospitals and inpatients units. In addition, compared to the other disciplines in psychology, clinical psychologist spend a great deal of…

research methodologies employed by different psychologists in formulating or validating personality theories. The course will consider the nature and dynamics of the Filipino personality. Abnormal Psychology (ABPSYCH) 3 units Prerequisite : Theories of Personality Prerequisite to : Clinical…