ECU PSYCH 3375 Exam 1 Cahoon Questions and
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Psychologist Ans: Health care professional offering psychological
services
Psychiatrist Ans: A medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis
and treatment of psychological disorders
Clinical Psychologist Ans: A mental health professional with training in
the behavioral sciences who provides direct service to clients
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Patient Ans: A person who receives treatment
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Client Ans: A person seeking psychological treatment
Clinician Ans: The person providing treatment
Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) Ans: Common and research based
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Doctorate of Psychology (Psy.D.) Ans: Not as common as the PhD.
Clinical based
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Reliability Ans: When used with regard to diagnosis, the degree to which
clinicians provide diagnoses consistently across individuals who have a
particular set of symptoms
Validity Ans: The extent to which a test, diagnosis, or rating accurately
and distinctly characterizes a person's psychological status
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Ans: A book
published by the American Psychiatric Association that contains standard
terms and definitions of psychological disorders
Axis Ans: A class of information in previous DSMs regarding one
dimension of an individual's functioning
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Multiaxial system Ans: Multidimensional classification and diagnostic
system in previous DSMs summarizing relevant information about an
individual's physical and psychological functioning
DSM-5 Ans: A nonaxial diagnostic system that is divided into 22 chapters
that include sets of related disorders
International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Ans: The diagnostic system
of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Z Codes Ans: Codes in the ICD that indicate the presence of psychosocial
and environmental problems
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Advantage of ICD Ans: Provides a common diagnostic system that the
110 member nations of WHO can use for epidemiological purposes
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Cultural Concepts of Distress Ans: Ways that individuals in specific
cultural groups experience, understand, and communicate their
suffering, behavioral problems, or troubling thoughts and emotions
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Culture-bound syndromes Ans: Recurrent patterns of abnormal behavior
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or experience that are limited to specific societies or cultural areas
Principal Diagnosis Ans: The disorder most closely aligned with the
primary reason the individual is seeking professional help
Cormorbidity Ans: Two (or more) disorders that co-occur with the same
individual
Differential Diagnosis Ans: The process of systematically ruling out
alternative diagnoses
Case Formulation Ans: A clinician's analysis of the factors that might
have influenced the client's current psychological status
Cultural Formulation Ans: A tool that includes the client's degree of
identification with the culture of origin, the culture's beliefs about
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psychological disorders, the ways in which culture interprets particular
events, and the cultural supports available to the client
Treatment Plan Ans: The outline for how therapy should take place
Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) Ans: Outpatient clinic that
provides psychological services on a sliding fee scale to serve individuals
who live within a certain geographic area
Day Treatment Program Ans: A structured program in a community
treatment facility that provides activities similar to those provided in a
psychiatric hospital
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Modality Ans: Form in which the clinician offers Psychotherapy
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Individual Psychotherapy Ans: Psychological treatment in which the
therapist works on a one-to-one basis with the client.
Family Therapy Ans: Psychological treatment in which the therapist
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works with several or all members of the family
Group Therapy Ans: Psychological treatment in which the therapist
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facilitates discussion among several clients who talk together about their
problems
Milieu Therapy Ans: A treatment approach, used in an inpatient
psychiatric facility, in which all facets of the milieu, or environment, are
components of the treatment
Evidence-Based Practice in psychology Ans: Clinical decision making that
integrates the best available research evidence and clinical expertise in
the context of the cultural background, preferences, and characteristics
of clients
Remission Ans: Situation in which the individual's symptoms no longer
interfere with his or her behavior and are below those required for a DSM
diagnosis