- What are the commonalities and differences of psychiatrists and psychologists?
- What are the activities of clinical psychologists in their work settings? Give examples to each activity area.
- What is meant by Scientist-Practitioner Model?
- What types of responsibilities/courses are required in a typical clinical Ph.D. program to improve students' application skills?
- What might be the worst way of asking a recommendation letter from a faculty member?
- What might be worst way of writing a letter of intend while applying to a graduate program in Clinical Psychology?
- What are the differences between Psy.D. and Ph.D. programs?
- What are the criteria for labelling abnormality? Describe advantages and disadvantages of using each criterion.
- What is diagnosis for? Describe your answer.
- What is the difference between past and recent ways of classifying mental illness in terms of DSM? Describe advantages of the recent view.
- Why are personality and clinical syndromes coded on different axes?
- What are the factors decreasing reliability of a diagnosis?
- In the latest DSM the number of disorders are four times more than the first DSM. What is the implication of this increase?
- In the history of Clinical Psychology in USA, Why have clinicians and the American Psychological Association often have had a stressful relationship?
- How did the world wars influence the development of Clinical Psychology in USA?
- Why do the science and practice aspects of clinical psychology have battles between them?
- How was the VA Hospitals critical to the development of clinical psychology following WWII?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages to using one theoretical approach?
- What are some of the reasons why integrating theoretical approaches is needed?
- Use the biopsychosocial perspective to discuss depression.
- Use the biopsychosocial perspective to discuss personality disorders.
- Use the biopsychosocial perspective to discuss attentional disorders among children.
- What are some of the pros and cons to the biopsychosocial approach?
- What are some of the common factors in psychotherapy?
- Are research skills really needed for clinical practitioners?
- Should the demonstration of clinical significance be mandated prior to publication on clinical topics?
- Do we as a society overvalue research as a way of knowing?
- Design a study to determine if psychotherapy is better than medication in treating depression among adolescents from high SES and low SES levels.
- Design a study to determine if a school based mental health program is useful to students from several different high schools.
- Design an experiment to determine if social support and feelings of control extend the life of an elderly population.
- What makes clinical psychology a worthwhile discipline?
- Is all of the training necessary to do what clinical psychologists do?
- Explain the use of active listening and clarification in effective interviewing.
- What are the advantages of using physiological measures?
- What are advantages and disadvantages of structured interviews?
- What do most psychotherapies have in common?
- How might a biopsychosocial perspective be used to treat depression?
- How does the psychotherapy in the movies differ than that provided in reality?
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- How does the psychotherapy experience really differ from taking with a close friend/relative?
- Is psychotherapy benefits only due to expectation and placebo?
- Which type of psychotherapy works best and why?
- Which professional(s) tend to get the best psychotherapy outcome and why?
- What are your chances of not benefiting from psychotherapy?
- What factors might be curative in terms of psychotherapy outcome?
- Is psychotherapy worth the expense?
- Should psychotherapy be mandated for people who commit violent crimes?
- Is there really any significant differences in outcome among the different types of psychotherapy?
- Your managed health plan will let you see one of three mental health professionals. One is a marriage counselor, one is a psychologist, and one is a psychiatrist. The counselor has been in practice for 30 years. The psychologist has been in practice for 5 years. The psychiatrist just finished her residency and you will be her first private patient. Given the research on treatment outcome, who should you work with and why?
- You tell your friend that you want to be a psychologist and provide psychotherapy services. He tells you that psychology is all common sense and that therapy doesn't work. How do you respond?
- A large company is looking for ways to decrease their costs. They are interested in findings ways to change their health plans to decrease the benefits expenses. They decide to eliminate mental health coverage in their plan as a way to minimize costs. Is this a good idea? Why?
- What are the typical ethical violations made by psychologists?
- What should a psychologist do when he or she witnesses an ethical violation by another psychologist?
- What exactly is a dual relationship and why is it not recommended?
- What is the relationship between ethics and the law?
- Are ethics codes really needed?
- Should an ethics code really tell people who they can date/marry/etc.?
- What are the usual factors that lead a psychologist to make an ethical violation?
- What major influences are likely to impact the future of health psychology?
- What can be the role of a clinical psychologist in the forensic issues?
- What are the items in Turk Ceza Kanunu that reduce or remove the responsibility of a crime?
- What is meant by psychological autopsy and how is it done?
- What are the implications of the shift of clients' preferences from physicians towards social workers, psychologists, etc.?
- What can be the reasons for the following statement?
Significantly more Americans reported feeling an impending nervous breakdown in 1996 than in 1957 or 1976.
- What are the significance of the following demographic variables in clinical psychology?
Demographic factors that consistently increased the likelihood of reporting an impending nervous breakdown over the three study years were being White, being a woman, having no religion, having less family income, being younger, having children, and not being married.