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Introduction
Introduction to Clinical Psychology provides an overview of the field of clinical psychology, covering its history, key concepts, and major theoretical approaches. The course explores the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders, as well as the ethical and cultural considerations involved in clinical practice. Students will gain insight into the roles and responsibilities of clinical psychologists, learn about various therapeutic interventions, and examine current research and trends in the field. This course serves as a foundation for further study in psychology and mental health professions.
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology 8th Edition by Geoffrey P. Kramer
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Chapter 1: What Is Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Most states require continuing education for maintaining clinical psychology licensure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Psychological assessment is currently considered a rather stagnant area of clinical psychology practice.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) There is a clear consensus on the research that should be used in developing evidence-based practices.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Social workers are the nation's largest group of mental health service providers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Clinical Psychologys Past and Present
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Q1) The theorist who emphasized the quality of the client-therapist relationship and considered it to be based on empathic listening was
A) Carl Rogers.
B) Sigmund Freud.
C) Alfred Binet.
D) James Cattell.
Answer: A
Q2) Hippocrates legitimized the involvement of the medical profession in the treatment of mental illness with his early theories of bodily humors or fluids.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Ellis advocated direct communication and persuasion to encourage clients to change while Freud encouraged therapists to rely on interpretation to effect therapeutic change.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Basic Features of Clinical Assessment
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Q1) In order to maintain the standards of the testing situations, clinicians must be careful to not explain the procedures being used to the client.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following statements accurately reflect the role of assessment in treatment planning?
A) Since diagnoses based on thorough assessments tend to be very distinct, it has been possible to define specific treatments for those diagnoses.
B) Psychodiagnostic assessment fits very neatly into the medical model.
C) Assessment cannot only assist in the development of a treatment plan, but can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment as well.
D) In real, every day practice, assessment has little relationship to treatment planning. Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Interviewing and Observation in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT usually considered one of the main benefits of the orientation interview?
A) misconceptions are often discussed and corrected
B) clients develop a better understanding of upcoming assessment and treatment activities
C) clients get information that enables them to choose their therapist
D) research participants can be provided with the ethically-required information before engaging in the requirements of the study
Q2) Virtual reality assessments
A) engage clients in the process, but do not carry over to real-world situations.
B) have not been developed to the point where they are helpful, but progress is being made.
C) may be better predictors of performance, in some cases, than reality-based tests.
D) have replaced role-playing assessments in most cases.
Q3) Termination interviews are to therapy as debriefings are to clinical research.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Testing in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) The triarchic theory of intelligence
A) was developed by Howard Gardner.
B) argues that there are three kinds of intelligence: analytical, creative, and practical.
C) is measured by the STAT, which has been well-researched to establish its validity and reliability.
D) all of the above
Q2) Both the social desirability bias and malingering can affect or bias test results.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Alfred Binet was the first person to develop a measure of intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The MMPI-2 is so well-established that relatively few empirical studies are currently being conducted with it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the factors that have affected patterns of test usage in clinical psychology.
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Chapter 6: Basic Features of Clinical Interventions
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Q1) Therapist self-disclosure
A) can be a helpful tool in establishing a therapeutic alliance.
B) must be undertaken carefully so that it is appropriate to the therapeutic situation. C) is appropriate as long as it serves the client's needs.
D) all of the above
Q2) Which of the following are in the correct order?
A) case formulation, assessment, treatment planning
B) assessment, case formulation, treatment planning
C) assessment, case formulation, additional assessment
D) treatment planning, assessment, case formulation
Q3) The concept of "macroskills" helps explain why effective psychotherapists are more similar to each other than one might expect based on their varying theoretical orientations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the roles the media have played in creating public perceptions of psychotherapy.
Q5) Discuss the relationship between the therapist's self-awareness, the influence of values, and ethics in psychotherapy.
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Chapter 7: Psychodynamic and Humanistic
Psychotherapies
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Q1) Short-term psychodynamic therapy emphasizes pragmatic goals and attempts to meet them in less than 10 sessions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In order to express unconditional positive regard, the therapist must approve of all the things the client says.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The psychoanalytic continuum from unconscious to preconscious, to conscious thought is called the structural model of the mind.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A Gestalt therapist is likely to be _________________ and _________________that a person-centered therapist.
A) more directive; less confrontative
B) less confrontative; less directive
C) more directive; more confrontative
D) more empathic; less concerned about avoidance
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Q5) Discuss the dual role of reflection in person-centered therapy.
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Chapter 8: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapies
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Q1) Behavioral therapists note that some psychological disorders result from clients lacking the ability to form and maintain relationships.Thus, they often include _________________as part of treatment.
A) social skills training
B) exposure therapy
C) functional analysis
D) unconditional positive regard
Q2) John has been given homework by his therapist that entails writing down events of emotional significance as they occur, along with his automatic cognitions and their intensity.This is called
A) a two-column thought record.
B) a three-column thought record.
C) clarification questioning record.
D) decatastrophizing record.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a component of functional analysis?
A) stimulus
B) organism
C) consequences
D) observations
Q4) Describe some ways that newer technologies facilitate behavioral therapies.
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Chapter 9: Alternative Modes of Clinical Intervention
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Q1) Prevention efforts in clinical and community psychology have been deleterious to the growth of the field of positive psychology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The goal of prevention
A) has been fully integrated into the field of clinical psychology.
B) is no longer a goal of clinical psychology.
C) has been negated by the development of the field of positive psychology.
D) has been realized except in the field of pediatrics and health psychology.
Q3) Unlike individual, group, and couples therapy, there is an agreed-upon technique for conducting family therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The more current terminology for what in the past was referred to as "secondary prevention" is
A) indicated prevention intervention.
B) universal mental health prevention.
C) selective mental health prevention.
D) psychotherapy.
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Chapter 10: Research on Clinical Intervention
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Q1) Evidence-based practices
A) have been established for all current DSM diagnoses.
B) have been shown through empirical research evidence to work effectively.
C) are consistently used by all professional clinicians.
D) are of only small interest to the field of clinical psychology.
Q2) The original published findings of the Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures published a list of 25 treatments identified as efficacious.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Family therapy has proven effective for
A) improving communication patterns.
B) improving behavior of the identified client.
C) improving parental discipline techniques.
D) all of the above
Q4) Strong group cohesion and therapeutic alliances enhance the benefits of group therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss three outcome research goals.
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Chapter 11: Clinical Child Psychology
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Q1) When prevalence estimates for CD and ODD are combined, ___________of children can be considered to have one of these disruptive disorders.
A) 2% to 10% of both boys and girls
B) 2% to 16% of girls and 4% to 16% of boys
C) 4% to 25% of girls and boys
D) 4% to 25% of girls or 4% to 32% of boys
Q2) The broadband concepts of internalizing and externalizing disorders are new to the field and lack empirical support.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Diagnosing childhood disorders can be challenging because many children evidence symptoms at some point in their lives.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Over half of children with diagnosable psychological disorders receive outpatient mental health treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How are risk factors, protective factors, and resilience related?
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Chapter 12: Health Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT an example of problem-focused coping?
A) confronting the situation head-on
B) distancing oneself from the situation
C) consulting with someone to get more information or new ideas
D) making a plan of action and following it
Q2) Anything that increases the likelihood of a person developing an illness or disorder is called a
A) risk factor.
B) resilience asset.
C) psychological stressor.
D) protective agent.
Q3) Explain the relationship between stress and illness.
Q4) Nearly half of all deaths in the United States can be attributed to risky behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy eating, sedentary lifestyles, and alcohol abuse.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the relationship that emotional aspects of patient-physician communications might have with treatment adherence.
Q6) Describe the three stages to Selye's general adaptation syndrome.
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Chapter 13: Clinical Neuopsychology
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Q1) Neuropsychology seeks to understand the relationship between brain processes and human behavior and psychological functioning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the major functions of the temporal lobes is
A) processing auditory information.
B) processing bodily sensations.
C) processing olfactory stimuli.
D) all of the above
Q3) A child who scores very high on the verbal subscales of the WISC-IV but displays poor spatial abilities and visual motor skills, may be diagnosed as having A) depression.
B) schizophrenia.
C) a nonverbal learning disorder.
D) dyslexia.
Q4) Is the right hemisphere really the inferior hemisphere? Why or why not?
Q5) Describe the various ways brain lateralization is studied.
Q6) Describe the types of behavior that might be manifested by an individual with severe frontal lobe damage.
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Chapter 14: Forensic Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is a change that has been made to the insanity defense in the last 20 years?
A) Several states have abolished the insanity defense altogether.
B) Several states have added the Guilty but Mentally Ill (GBMI) verdict.
C) neither of the above
D) both of the above
Q2) ____________________occurs when a psychologist attempts to evaluate the psychological state of an individual after than individual is deceased.
A) A postmortem evaluation
B) A psychological profile
C) A psychological autopsy
D) An advance medical directive
Q3) A formalized indication of a desire to not receive life-sustaining medical treatment if one becomes incapacitated is called
A) a living will.
B) an advance medical directive.
C) civil competency.
D) all of the above
Q4) Describe the three ways that claims for psychological disability might arise.
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Chapter 15: Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is a good source for consultation about ethical concerns for professional clinicians?
A) professional journals and books
B) colleagues
C) malpractice insurance companies
D) all of the above
Q2) Discuss the impact positive psychology has had on clinical psychology.
Q3) As compared to PsyD programs, PhD programs
A) enroll more students.
B) provide more students with financial aid.
C) tend to have larger class sizes.
D) tend to admit students with lower mean GPAs and GRE scores.
Q4) Certification protects only the title of psychologist.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most disciplinary actions against psychologists involve
A) financial misrepresentation or fraud.
B) licensure problems.
C) sexual misconduct.
D) poor recordkeeping.
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Chapter 16: Getting Into Graduate School in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) The authors state that there are some things one can do to maximize the positive impact of an interview.These include
A) preparation and practice.
B) demonstrating one's intellectual prowess by not using or taking notes during the process.
C) making sure the committee knows about one's "fun" side by partying with the graduate students involved in the interviews.
D) all of the above
Q2) While overall GPA is important to admission committees, some committees will focus on the
A) grades a student attained in psychology courses.
B) patterns of grades as a student progressed through college.
C) grades a student attained in statistics or research design courses.
D) all of the above
Q3) Which of the following should be addressed in letters of recommendation?
A) a student's motivation and conscientiousness
B) the student's ability to think intelligently about psychological issues
C) a student's maturity and ability to take on challenges responsibly
D) all of the above
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