Intro to Clinical Psych 347 Exam 1 – 9/2024
Review Guide – Exam 1
This review guide provides an overview of Lectures 1-4. This is a general overview
of the material – this is not necessarily a comprehensive list of what will be on the
exam. Treat this guide as an outline of the material we reviewed in class. The exam
will be multiple choice and possibly short answer.
Lecture 1: What is Clinical Psychology?
- Clinical Psychology is the largest single subfield in psychology.
- What are some reasons why someone might be interested in the field?
- Definition of Clinical Psychology:
“The field of Clinical Psychology integrates science, theory, and practice to
understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment, disability, and discomfort,
as well as to promote human adaptation, adjustment, and personal
development. Clinical Psychology focuses on intellectual, emotional,
biological, social and behavioral aspects of human functioning across the life
span, in varying cultures, and at all socioeconomic levels”.
- What is Clinical Approach?
Legal, Educational, and Ethical Requirements to Be a Clinical
Psychologist
- What Undergraduate Preparation is required to begin education as a
Clinical Psychologist?
- What does a Doctorate education in Clinical Psychology look like?
- Clinical psychologists are designated as what?
- How does licensing work for a Clinical Psychologist?
- Do Clinical Psychologists need practice before licensing?
- What is a Testing of Competence? What 2 things must a Clinical
Psychologist do?
Related Mental Health Professions
- What are some examples of related Mental Health Professions?
Activities of a Clinical Psychologist
- What 6 activities do 95% off all clinical psychologists engage in? List
each activity and give examples of why it is important.
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- What are the 3 Categories of Clinical Assessment Instruments?
- What are two examples of consultation?
- What are examples of administrative positions?
Diversity in the Field
- Women in Clinical Psychology
- What percentage of the field is made up of ethnic minorities?
Models of Clinical Training
- How should science and practice be combined?
- What is Evidence-Based Practice?
- Boulder model (scientist-practitioner model) vs. Vail Model
- What are the differences between the Boulder and Vail Models?
Eclecticism and Integration
- What is Eclecticism?
Intro to Clinical Psych 347 Exam 1 – 9/2024
- What is Psychotherapy integration?
Lecture 2: Clinical Psychology’s Past, Present, and Future
- Clinical psychology did not emerge as a widely recognized discipline
until the beginning of the 20th century.
Roots of Clinical Psychology
- What are 3 traditions of social & historical factors that shaped the
field?
- What is the Empirical Tradition?
- What is the Psychometric Tradition?
- What is Phrenology?
Intro to Clinical Psych 347 Exam 1 – 9/2024
- Name four individuals who contributed towards the ideas of the
“psychometric tradition” (i.e. the effort to measure individual
differences in people’s physical and mental abilities). List their
accomplishments towards these ideas.
Intro to Clinical Psych 347 Exam 1 – 9/2024
- What is the Clinical Tradition?
- What are the 4 bodily fluids that Hippocrates writes about?
- When did the psychiatric revolution take place?
Clinical Psychology Begins to Grow
- Describe the paradigm shift that took place as Clinical Psychology
begins to grow.
Intro to Clinical Psych 347 Exam 1 – 9/2024
- Name 3 individuals during the early 1900s that were influential in the
history of Clinical Psychology. Describe what they did.
- What are some examples of measures that test personality, interests,
specific abilities & emotions?
Clinicians Pursue Roles as Psychotherapists
- Who was William Heal?
- Who was G. Stanley Hall?
- When was the first U.S. psychoanalytic association formed? Where was
it formed?
- When was the VA (Veteran’s Administration) formed?
- When was the Community Mental Health Clinics formed?
Clinicians Form Professional Organizations
- When was the APA established?
- When was the American Association of Clinical Psychologists (AACP)
formed?
- What happened during the 1940s and 50s in Clinical Psychology?
Therapeutic Approaches
- What is the Psychodynamic Approach? Which individual is associated
with this approach? What is the goal of therapy?
- What is the Humanistic Approach? Which individual(s) are associated
with this approach? What is the goal of therapy?
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- What is the Behavioral Approach? Which individual(s) are associated
with this approach? What is the goal of therapy?
- What is the Cognitive Approach? Which individual(s) are associated
with this approach? What is the goal of therapy?
- What is the Cognitive-Behavioral Approach? Which individual(s) are
associated with this approach? What is the goal of therapy?
- What are the Group, Family Marital, Couples & Social Systems
Approach? Which individual(s) are associated with this approach? What
is the goal of therapy?
Biological Influences and Two Models of Interaction
- What is Direct influence?
- What is Indirect influence?
- What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
- What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
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Lecture 3: Basic Features of Clinical Assessment
What is Clinical Assessment?
- What is Clinical Assessment? What tools are used?
- What are the Goals of Clinical Assessment?
The Assessment Process
- What are the 5 Steps of the Assessment Process?
- What are the 2 questions we should ask at the beginning of the
Assessment Process?
- What is a referral source?
- What is the referral question?
- What is important about the second step of the Assessment Process?
- What are 4 Main Sources in the third step of the Assessment Process?
- What must clinicians rely on in the fourth step of the Assessment
Process?
- What is the Goal of the fifth step of the Assessment Process?
- What is Diagnostic Classification?
History of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders)
- Provide an overview of the history of the DSM. Write years of
importance for the DSM and describe what happened during those
years.
- What is multiaxial diagnosis?
- How was the DSM-IV-TR updated?
- How was the DSM-V updated? How was it organized?
Criticisms of the DSM-5
- What are some criticisms of the DSM-5?
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- What is comorbidity?
Descriptive Assessment, Treatment Assessment and Clinical
Judgement
- What is descriptive assessment?
- What is Treatment Planning and Treatment Assessment?
- What is Prediction? What is Prognosis?
- What are predictions of future performance?
- What are predictions of dangerousness?
- What is Base rate?
- What is Clinical Intuition?
- What are 3 types of bias in Clinical Intuition?
Psychometric Properties of Assessment Instruments/Measures
- What is Reliability/Consistency?
- What is Test-retest reliability?
- What is Interrater agreement?
- What is Validity? What are 3 types of validity?
- What is Standardization?
Other Factors Affecting Assessment Choices
- What are Clinician’s Experience and Theoretical Orientation?
- What are important Cultural Factors to consider that may affect
Assessment Choices?
Communicating Assessment Results
- What are 3 important points when considering how to Communicate
Assessment Results?
Lecture 4: Interviewing & Observation in Clinical Psychology
Intro to Clinical Psych 347 Exam 1 – 9/2024
Types of Interviews
- What are the 6 types of Interviews we talked about in class? Define
each and describe the specific parts of the interview, as well as the
goal of each interview.
Interview Structure and Stages of the Interview
- What are the 3 types of Interview Structure?
- What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Structured Interviews?
Stages of the Interview
- What are the 4 Stages of the Interview? Describe each and list
important points of each stage.
- What are the 4 techniques/tactics a Clinical Psychologist would utilize
during the Middle of an Interview?
Goals of Observational Assessment
- What are the 3 Goals of the Observational Assessment?
- What are the limitations of Observational Assessment?
Observational Assessment: Approaches
- What is Naturalistic Observational?
- What is Self-Observation/ Self-Monitoring?
- What are Unobtrusive & Corroborating Measures?
- What is Controlled Observation? What are the 5
measures/assessments utilized in Controlled Observation?
- What are the 4 points of Research on Observational Assessment?
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