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Health Psychology explores the psychological factors that influence health, illness, and healthcare. This course examines how behaviors, emotions, and social contexts can impact physical well-being and disease outcomes. Students will learn about the role of stress, coping mechanisms, health behaviors, and patient-practitioner relationships, as well as interventions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles and improving healthcare delivery. Through an integration of theory, research, and practical application, the course equips students with an understanding of how psychological principles can be applied to prevent illness, promote health, and enhance the management of chronic and acute medical conditions.
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Clinical Psychology Science Practice and Culture 3rd Edition by Andrew M. (Mark) Pomerantz
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Chapter 1: Clinical Psychology: Definition and Training
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Q1) Compared to PhD programs,PsyD programs typically
A) accept a larger percentage of applicants.
B) offer significantly less funding to enrolled students in the form of graduate assistantships, fellowships, and tuition remission.
C) produce graduates who score lower on the national licensing exam (EPPP).
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) The Boulder model of training is also known as the _____ model of training.
A) practitioner-scholar
B) clinical scientist
C) clinical psychologist
D) scientist-practitioner
Answer: D
Q3) The term clinical psychology was first used in print in the year _____.
A) 1780
B) 1894
C) 1907
D) 1952
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Evolution of Clinical Psychology
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Q1) At the 1896 convention of the American Psychological Association,when Lightner Witmer encouraged his colleagues to "throw light upon the problems that confront humanity," he meant that they should
A) develop a diagnostic manual.
B) open psychological clinics.
C) convince local politicians to improve the conditions of inpatient facilities for the seriously mentally ill.
D) organize and lobby for the right to prescribe medication.
Answer: B
Q2) The Rorschach Inkblot Method and the Thematic Apperception Test are both examples of _____.
Answer: projective personality tests
Q3) Eli Todd is most notable for
A) creating an inkblot personality test that is still used by many clinical psychologists.
B) advocating for humane treatment of the mentally ill in the U.S.
C) coining the term clinical psychology.
D) creating the first widely used test of intelligence.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Current Controversies in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Guidelines regarding the use of new technologies by clinical psychologists include which of the following?
A) Obtain informed consent from clients about the services they may receive, the technologies that may be used to provide them, and the confidentiality of the communication.
B) Ensure client confidentiality as much as possible by using encryption or similar methods.
C) Be knowledgeable about emergency resources in any community from which your clients may seek services.
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) _____ stated (incorrectly)that psychotherapy does not work.
Answer: Hans Eysenck
Q3) List two disadvantages of evidence-based practice.
Answer: threats to the psychotherapy relationship,diagnostic complications,restrictions on practice,debatable criteria for empirical evidence
Q4) The first list of empirically validated treatments was published in _____.
Answer: 1995
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Chapter 4: Cultural Issues in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) In 2000,the number of first-generation immigrants in the U.S.represented about ____% of the U.S.population.
A) 2
B) 5
C) 10
D) 20
Q2) Briefly explain how the height of basketball star Yao Ming illustrates the concept of heterogeneity within a culture.
Q3) Based on McGoldrick's research,Irish American patients
A) may be uncomfortable with questions about inner feelings, especially negative feelings or sexual feelings.
B) may feel guilty about some feelings that wouldn't be an issue in other cultural groups.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q4) _____ is the term used to describe the variability of members within a cultural group.
Q5) Which edition of the DSM was the first to include culture-bound syndromes?
Q6) What are the three levels of the tripartite model of personal identity?
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Chapter 5: Ethical Issues in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) The current edition of the APA ethical code includes two distinct sections: _____ and _____.
A) General Principles; Ethical Standards
B) Research Standards; Practice Standards
C) Assessment Code; Treatment Code
D) none of the above
Q2) Burnout
A) can significantly impair the competence of a clinical psychologist. B) occurs at high levels in less than 1% of psychologists, according to survey data. C) is less likely to occur when a clinical psychologist is overcommitted to clients or earns a low salary.
D) all of the above
Q3) The process of _____ includes informing patients as early as is feasible in the therapeutic relationship about the nature and anticipated course of therapy,fees,involvement of third parties,and limits of confidentiality.
Q4) Which General Principle instructs psychologists to recognize that fairness and justice entitle all persons to access to and benefit from the contributions of psychology?
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Chapter 6: Conducting Research in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) _____ significance in an efficacy or effectiveness study refers to a statistically significant difference between two groups.It is measured quantitatively.
A) Statistical
B) Clinical
C) Theoretical
D) Control
Q2) _____ variables are those variables in a study that are manipulated by the experimenter.
Q3) Another phrase for "generalizability" is _____.
A) internal validity
B) external validity
C) positive psychology
D) negative psychology
Q4) A study examining a psychotherapy's success in an actual clinical setting is measuring the therapy's _____.
Q5) A researcher planning to follow a group of depressed patients over a 20-year period would likely be using a _____ design.
Q6) What is the primary difference between correlational methods and experimental methods?
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Chapter 7: Diagnosis and Classification Issues
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Q1) Which edition of the DSM was the first to include culture-bound syndromes?
Q2) The _____ approach to diagnosis examines where on a continuum a client's symptoms fall.
Q3) Disorders such as minor depressive disorder are not official diagnoses and are listed as _____ in an appendix of the DSM-IV.
A) upcoming diagnoses
B) research disorders
C) provisional disorders
D) cultural diagnoses
Q4) All editions of the DSM have been published by the _____.
A) American Psychiatric Association
B) American Psychological Association
C) American Psychological Society
D) American Counseling Association
Q5) The DSM reflects a _____ model of psychopathology.
Q6) Briefly explain how the professions of the primary authors of the DSM,as well as its publisher,has influenced its approach to conceptualizing mental disorders.
Q7) List one proposed change to the current DSM that is likely to appear in DSM-5.
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Q8) Compare and contrast the categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosis.
Chapter 8: The Clinical Interview
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Q1) Describe the difference between paraphrasing and reflection of feeling.
Q2) What is the primary purpose of the mental status exam?
Q3) _____ of clinical psychologists use clinical interviews as part of their assessment processes.
A) About half
B) The vast majority
C) About 25%
D) Less than 5%
Q4) Eye contact,body language,vocal qualities,and verbal tracking are specific types of _____.
A) behavioral psychotherapy techniques
B) attending behaviors
C) rapport
D) directive interviewing
Q5) What are three of the five specific questions that Sommers-Flanagan and Sommers-Flanagan (2009)recommend be asked of a client who is actively suicidal?
Q6) A question such as "Do you consume alcohol?" is an example of a _____ question.
Q7) Describe the difference between validity and reliability in relation to assessment techniques.
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Chapter 9: Intellectual and Neuropsychological Assessment
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Q1) According to Cattell,_____ intelligence is intelligence accumulated as a result of life experiences.
A) fluid
B) crystallized
C) marginal
D) majority
Q2) What is the most commonly used neuropsychological screening measure among clinical psychologists?
Q3) Briefly describe the types of scores yielded by the Wechsler intelligence tests.What kind of model of intelligence do these scores endorse?
Q4) Which of the following is NOT true regarding the WIAT-III?
A) The WIAT-III measures achievement in four broad areas.
B) The Oral Language Composite score is derived from the Pseudoword Decoding and Numerical Operations subtests.
C) The WIAT-III measures the broad areas of reading, math, written language, and oral language.
D) All of the above statements (A, B, and C) are correct.
Q5) What are the three Wechsler intelligence tests?
Q6) Who created the three-stratum theory of intelligence?
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Chapter 10: Personality Assessment and Behavioral Assessment
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of an objective personality test?
A) California Psychological Inventory-III
B) NEO-PI-R
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q2) The _____ emphasizes the positive attributes of personality and yields scores on scales such as Independence and Self-Acceptance.
Q3) Briefly explain empirical criterion keying,the method of test construction used by the authors of the MMPI.
Q4) Briefly contrast the different emphases (in terms of aspects of personality)of the MMPI-2,MCMI-III,NEO-PI-R,and CPI-III.
Q5) What is the most popular objective personality test used by clinical psychologists?
Q6) The NEO-Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R)was created by _____.
A) Theodore Millon
B) Starke Hathaway and J. C. McKinley
C) Paul Costa and Robert McCrae
D) Aaron Beck
Q7) On what type of test might the item "I enjoy _____" appear?
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Chapter 11: General Issues in Psychotherapy
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Q1) List and briefly describe each of the stages in Norcross,Krebs,and Prochaska's (2011)stages of change model.
Q2) _____ refers to how well psychotherapy works "in the lab."
Q3) In addition to effectiveness and efficacy,other ways to measure psychotherapy outcome include
A) the neurobiological effects of psychotherapy.
B) medical cost offset.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q4) List two common factors discussed in the text.
Q5) What is the difference between the efficacy and effectiveness of a form of psychotherapy?
Q6) A(n)_____ approach to therapy blends techniques to create an entirely new,hybrid form of therapy.
Q7) The dodo bird verdict has been challenged by some psychotherapy researchers,including _____.
A) Bruce Wampold
B) Dianne Chambless
C) Stanley Messer
D) all of the above
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Chapter 12: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
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Q1) Psychodynamic psychotherapy refers broadly to the approach authored by _____ and all subsequent adaptations or expansions of it.
A) Carl Rogers
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Hans Strupp
D) B. F. Skinner
Q2) _____,according to psychodynamic psychotherapists,is the therapist's unconscious tendency to interact with clients as if the client is very similar to an individual from the therapist's own personal history.
A) Transference
B) Countertransference
C) Interpretation
D) Fixation
Q3) The term _____ succinctly captures the primary goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
A) self-actualization
B) insight
C) shaping
D) congruence
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Chapter 13: Humanistic Psychotherapy
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Q1) In humanistic psychotherapy,_____ takes place when a therapist responds to a client by rephrasing or restating the client's statements in a way that highlights the client's feelings or emotions.
A) emotional consequence
B) reflection
C) congruence
D) countertransference
Q2) _____,developed by William Miller,is a contemporary application of the principles of humanism.
A) Existential psychotherapy
B) Quality of life therapy
C) Motivational interviewing
D) Behavioral consultation
Q3) Explain the relationship among the humanistic concepts of real self,ideal self,self-actualization,and conditions of worth.
Q4) Name three of the six central principles of motivational interviewing.
Q5) Briefly describe positive psychology.What does it emphasize? What is the name of the therapy derived from positive psychology?
Q6) Who is the most prominent pioneer of humanistic therapy?
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Chapter 14: Behavioral Psychotherapy
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Q1) What form of behavioral consultation helps parents with the problematic behaviors of their children?
Q2) _____,a treatment for phobias and other anxiety disorders,involves re-pairing a feared object with a new response that is incompatible with anxiety.
A) Exposure plus response prevention
B) Behavioral consultation
C) Systematic desensitization
D) Contingency management
Q3) _____ is typically present in systematic desensitization but typically absent from exposure therapy.
A) Relaxation training
B) Exposure to anxiety-producing stimuli
C) Reflection
D) Creation of an anxiety hierarchy
Q4) What is a main difference between exposure therapy and systematic desensitization?
Q5) Describe the process of exposure therapy.What psychological problem is it usually used to treat? Include key elements or techniques used in this type of therapy.
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Chapter 15: Cognitive Psychotherapy
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Q1) Aaron Beck has argued that the cognitive triad,which includes _____,is a powerful determinant of mental health and depression levels.
A) thoughts about the self
B) thoughts about the external world
C) thoughts about the future
D) all of the above
Q2) What are the five components of the ABCDE model?
Q3) Dialectical behavior therapy,developed by Marsha Linehan,has been found effective in the treatment of _____.
A) spinal cord injuries
B) borderline personality disorder
C) individuals with work-related problems that do not qualify as mental disorders
D) obsessive-compulsive disorder
Q4) _____ is a thought distortion in which the patient irrationally evaluates everything as either wonderful or terrible,with no middle ground.
Q5) Define the common thought distortion known as overgeneralization,and offer a fictional example that a client might bring to a clinical psychologist.
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Chapter 16: Group and Family Therapy
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Q1) Regarding the causes of psychological problems,_____ therapists tend to endorse a linear model of causality,whereas _____ therapists tend to endorse a circular model of causality.
A) cognitive; humanistic
B) family; individual
C) behavioral; cognitive
D) individual; family
Q2) Which of the following is true regarding group therapy?
A) Extra-group socializing is encouraged by most group therapists.
B) Cotherapists must share identical therapy orientation in order to be effective.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above
Q3) List three of Yalom's therapeutic factors for group psychotherapy.
Q4) The Conflict Tactics Scale assesses _____.
A) depression
B) abuse and violence within families
C) cognitive confrontation
D) cognitive distortion
Q5) What do group therapists mean by the term social microcosm?
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Chapter 17: Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
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Q1) _____ is a form of therapy with children in which clients learn to "talk themselves through" situations in which their behavior might be problematic.
A) Narrative therapy
B) Self-instructional training
C) Solution-focused therapy
D) Humanistic play therapy
Q2) What is the rationale for a multisource,multimethod,multisetting approach to the assessment of children?
Q3) Cognitive-behavioral techniques for children have been found beneficial in treating _____.
A) depression
B) ADHD
C) anxiety disorders
D) all of the above
Q4) What are the three categories of child resilience identified by Grotberg (2003)?
Q5) What is the recommended approach to assessment of children?
Q6) What are the three basic functions of play therapy identified by Brems (2008)?
Q7) What is the most commonly used assessment test for both children and adolescents?
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Chapter 18: Health Psychology
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Q1) What is the name of an organism's response when it perceives a threat and its body rapidly mobilizes energy reserves via the sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system?
Q2) The _____ controls the release of our body's stress hormone,cortisol.
Q3) What are several hypotheses proposed to explain how social support protects our health?
Q4) Health psychologists can increase compliance with medical regimens by
A) serving as liaisons between the medical provider and the patient.
B) thoroughly educating the patient on the proposed treatment.
C) aiding the patient in bolstering his or her social support systems.
D) all of the above
Q5) _____ has been shown to be both a significant detriment to smoking cessation and a significant predictor of relapse.
A) Use of nicotine gum or patches
B) Social support
C) The presence of smokers in one's social group
D) none of the above
Q6) What is the "A" component of the ABCDS of weight loss?
Q7) Describe the new health psychology technique known as values affirmation.
Q8) What are the components of the ABCs of relapse prevention for smokers?
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Chapter 19: Forensic Psychology
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Q1) Forensic psychology training opportunities include
A) elective forensic courses in doctoral programs.
B) specialized forensic tracks in doctoral programs.
C) joint degree programs in law (JD) and psychology (PhD).
D) all of the above
Q2) What is the M'Naughten test? What are its historical origins,and why is it important?
Q3) In forensic psychology,a method of predicting dangerousness that involves a statistical prediction based on objective variables,with little to no subjective data,is the _____ method.
A) clinical prediction
B) historical prediction
C) actuarial prediction
D) individual prediction
Q4) The prediction of dangerousness is particularly difficult because it happens so infrequently,a phenomenon known as the _____ problem.
Q5) Forensic psychologists may conduct _____ evaluations with police personnel following an extremely stressful experience by an officer,such as being shot.
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