What is a scientist practioner?
What is a reflective practitioner?
What are the 4 Key Tasks of a Clinical Psychologist?
What is assessment?
understanding the problems that a client is experiencing, what may have caused these problems and be maintaining them, and how the client would like to change
What is formulation?
The use of clinical information to draw up a psychological explanation of the client’s problems and to develop a plan for therapy
What is intervention?
Psychological treatment, implemented on the bases of the formulation - may be based on multiple theoretical approaches and may be co-designed with the client
What is evaluation?
The stage of treatment that seeks to ensure any intervention is having the desired effect - can be achieved in a number of ways
What questions does the assessor consider?
What methods of assessment are there?
Explain the 3 sections of the BioPsychoSocial model.
Biological - genetics, physiology, neurology
Psychological - thoughts, emotions, memories
Social - relationships, family, culture, society
Formulations seek to explain the problem in terms of what?
What are the 5Ps?
What are predisposing factors?
What made this person vulnerable in the first place?
What are precipitating factors?
What triggered this episode?
What are protective factors?
positive things this person has going for them
What are perpetuating factors?
Maintaining factors - things that keep the problem going
Examples of Interventions
What is the role of CBT?
Who developed CBT?
How did psychoanalytic tradition influence CBT?
The view of one’s self is central to determining behaviour
How did phenomenology influence CBT?
Focus on individual subjective experience
How did structural theory influence CBT?
Ideas about how we develop more advanced and adaptive ways of knowing the world
How did academic cognitive psychology influence CBT?
Emphasis on the importance of cognition in information processing & behavioural change
What is a constructivist model?
Individual creates knowledge
Idiosyncratic
Emphasis on whether knowledge is viable and adaptive