Psychology Practicum
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Course Introduction
Psychology Practicum offers students supervised, hands-on experience in applied psychology settings such as clinics, schools, or community organizations. Through direct client interaction and observation, students integrate theoretical concepts with practical skills, developing competencies in assessment, intervention, and ethical decision-making. Regular supervision and reflective practice are emphasized to deepen understanding, enhance professional development, and prepare students for future roles in psychology.
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology 3rd Canadian Edition by John Hunsley
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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Anna Freud,daughter of Sigmund Freud,extended her father's work by
A)highlighting the roles of birth order and social comparison on a person's development.
B)recognizing the role of conscious efforts to adjust to life difficulties and obstacles.
C)extending the role of unconscious forces in a person's development.
D)questioning the role of dreams in a person's development.
Answer: B
Q2) In the 1960s and 1970s,there was a marked ______ in the number of psychotherapies available,and an_______ in research concerning psychotherapy.
A)decrease; decrease
B)decrease; increase
C)increase; increase
D)increase; decrease
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Contemporary Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Prevention efforts by psychologists are usually based in A)hospitals.
B)private clinical practices.
C)community settings.
D)forensic settings.
Answer: C
Q2) _______ prevention involves reducing overall disability from a mental disorder,_______ involves prevention of disorder before it starts,whereas _______ is designed to reduce the recurrence of a disorder that has already emerged.
A)primary; secondary; tertiary
B)tertiary; secondary; primary
C)secondary; tertiary; primary
D)tertiary; primary; secondary
Answer: D
Q3) A needs assessment functions to
A)determine the extent of training required for new employee psychologists.
B)determine the extent of an unmet health care need in an identified population.
C)determine whether programs have successfully achieved their goals.
D)to assess the extent to which the program was carried out as intended.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Classification and Diagnosis
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Q1) The ICD is used:
A)far less than DSM as it is a newer system.
B)to determine prevalence rates across countries using the same criteria.
C)by practitioners who favour biological interventions.
D)predominantly in low income countries.
Answer: B
Q2) An important consideration in diagnostic reliability is the _______ of individuals with the same diagnosis,as this could impact inter-rater reliability,and contribute to ______ in treatment response.
A)homogeneity of symptom profiles; similarity
B)heterogeneity of symptom profiles; variability
C)homogeneity of symptom profiles; variability
D)heterogeneity of symptom profiles; similarity
Answer: B
Q3) Classification __________ refers to the usefulness of a classification scheme.
A)utility
B)reliability
C)validity
D)applicability
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Compared with all other research designs,experimental designs provide the best protection against threats to
A)external validity.
B)internal validity.
C)external reliability.
D)internal reliability.
Q2) When beginning research on a new topic the selection of an appropriate research design should follow:
A)formulation of the study procedures.
B)a thorough review of the published research on the topic of interest.
C)consideration of ethical issues in testing of the hypothesis.
D)operationalization of key concepts.
Q3) A logical error assuming that the most valid conclusion to reach is a compromise between two competing positions is a common error in thinking referred to as:
A)false dilemma.
B)faulty reasoning.
C)golden mean fallacy.
D)straw person argument.
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Chapter 5: Assessment: Overview
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Q1) To be most useful,treatment planning should
A)focus only on short-term goals of treatment.
B)focus on intermediate goals of treatment.
C)focus on ultimate goals of treatment.
D)focus on both the intermediate and the ultimate goals of treatment.
Q2) What term is more commonly used today,replacing the term psychodiagnosis?
A)Screening.
B)Case formulation.
C)Patient conceptualization.
D)Clinical presentation.
Q3) A procedure to identify individuals who may have clinically significant problems or who may be at risk for developing such problems is referred to as a _______ procedure.
A)diagnostic
B)screening
C)treatment-planning
D)treatment-evaluation
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Chapter 6: Assessment: Interviewing and Observation
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Q1) Compared to the general population,older adults are more likely to face issues around which of the following?
A)Loss of autonomy.
B)Schizophrenia.
C)Anxiety.
D)Personality disorders.
Q2) The SCID begins with
A)the evaluation of personality disorders.
B)closed questions discussing demographic information.
C)open-ended questions discussing demographic information.
D)discussing mental health problems associated with less stigma.
Q3) Self-monitoring can involve
A)recording occurrences of symptoms.
B)tracking efforts to manage symptoms.
C)Keeping a log of efforts to curtail symptoms
D)all of the above.
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Chapter 7: Assessment: Intellectual and Cognitive Measures
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Q1) The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children and Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test differs from the Wechsler scales in which of the following ways:
A)Focus on how children and adults learn,assessing styles of learning rather than knowledge or skill areas.
B)Identifies gaps between an individual's potential to learn and what the examinee has actually learned.
C)Uses different subscales that focus on processing and achievement.
D)All of the above.
Q2) _________ intelligence refers to what we have learned in life,both from formal education and general life experiences.
A)Fluid
B)Crystallized
C)Multiple
D)Processing
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Chapter 8: Assessment: Self-Report and Projective Measures
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Q1) Concerns about the need to use measures that are inexpensive,not too time-consuming,and with direct and immediate relevance to treatment planning and monitoring have led to the increased use of:
A)projective tests.
B)behaviour and symptom checklists.
C)objective personality tests.
D)structured clinical interviews.
Q2) The NEO Personality Inventory-3 is based on what model of personality?
A)Cognitive-social
B)Five-factor
C)Personality type categories
D)Triarchic theory of personality
Q3) The Personality Assessment Inventory is intended for ___________ and requires a Grade ____ reading level.
A)youth and adults; 4
B)adults; 4
C)youth and adults; 8
D)adults; 8
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Chapter 9: Assessment Integration and Clinical Decision-Making
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Q1) A psychologist who relies on psychological tests that are directly relevant to the assessment task that have strong psychometric qualities and uses normative data and base rate information whenever available,s/he is
A)employing strategies to improve the accuracy of clinical judgment.
B)contributing to the development of local norms.
C)increasing her understanding of personal biases and preconceptions.
D)using the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
Q2) To demonstrate the relationship between accurately detecting patterns within a client's data,O'Brien 1995)presented clinical psychology graduates with a limited but specific data.The results of this study indicated that the students were able to accurately detect related factors
A)none of the time.
B)about 25% of the time.
C)about half of the time.
D)all of the time.
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Chapter 10: Prevention
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Q1) Meta-analyses of the effects of school-based bullying prevention program revealed that:
A)these programs can eliminate bullying.
B)these programs have no effect on bullying.
C)most effective programs involve both teachers and parents.
D)programs are most effective in reducing bullying by boys.
Q2) The characteristics of the individual or the environment that render a person more vulnerable to the development of a problem or a disorder are referred to as A)predictive factors.
B)protective factors.
C)risk factors.
D)relapse factors.
Q3) The World Economic Forum reported that in 2010,the global cost of mental disorders were
A)impossible to estimate.
B)equal to the GDP of some countries.
C)highest in developing countries.
D)approximately $2.5 trillion.
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Chapter 11: Intervention: Overview
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Q1) Evidence-based treatments perform _________ than routine psychotherapy services,and patients receiving the evidence-based treatments in randomized controlled trials are often _______ severely distressed.
A)better ; less
B)better ; more
C)more poorly ; less
D)more poorly ; more
Q2) Before offering psychological services to children,the psychologist must obtain consent
A)from the child receiving the services,if the psychologist determines that the child is competent to give consent.
B)from the child receiving services,if the child is old enough to be presumed competent to give consent.
C)from the child or guardian depending on the jurisdiction.
D)from the child's parent or legal guardian,as a child is never permitted to give consent,only assent.
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Chapter 12: Intervention: Adults and Couples
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Q1) Emotionally-focused couple therapy is designed to
A)modify partners' emotional responses.
B)modify partners' interactional patterns.
C)foster or establish a secure emotional bond in the couple.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Thought monitoring requires recording the types of thoughts that typically occur around
A)upsetting situations.
B)positive situations.
C)Both of the above
D)None of the above
Q3) Emotionally-focused therapy is an intervention method used primarily for A)parent-child relationship problems.
B)couples experiencing relationship problems.
C)any type of relationship problems.
D)behavioural problems in youth.
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Chapter 13: Intervention: Children and Adolescents
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Q1) There is evidence that if untreated,the problems associated with disruptive behaviour disorders in childhood
A)generally dissipate before adolescence.
B)persist into adolescence but generally fade by adulthood.
C)naturally fade in adolescence.
D)persist into adulthood.
Q2) McLeod and Weisz 2004)found that unpublished dissertations studying child psychotherapy,compared with published studies,
A)were more methodologically sound,and obtained lower effect sizes.
B)were more methodologically sound,and obtained higher effect sizes.
C)were less methodologically sound,and obtained lower effect sizes.
D)were less methodologically sound,and obtained higher effect sizes.
Q3) The main differences between treating adolescent and adult depression are in
A)adapting the material to make it more engaging for young people.
B)encouraging youth attendance,and in developing modules that include parents.
C)adapting the material to make it more engaging for young people,and in encouraging parental attendance.
D)that IPT is more effective for adolescents,and in developing modules that include parents.
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Chapter 14: Intervention: Identifying Key Elements of Change
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Q1) Which of the hypothesized common factors in psychotherapy has received the most research attention?
A)Empathy.
B)Sense of mastery in the client.
C)Therapeutic alliance.
D)Confronting problems in therapy.
Q2) In terms of psychological reactance,low-reactant clients usually experience greater therapeutic gains in ____ directive treatment,and high-reactant clients usually experience greater therapeutic gains in ____ directive treatment.
A)more; less
B)less; more
C)less; less
D)more; more
Q3) Early treatment gains for individuals in treatment for major depressive disorders have been shown in individuals receiving A)cognitive therapy.
B)placebo medication.
C)short-term psychodynamic therapy.
D)all of the above.
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology, clinical Neuropsychology, and Forensic Psychology
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Q1) The College of Psychologists of Ontario requires that forensic psychologists have additional knowledge in
A)criminal behaviour.
B)risk management.
C)risk assessment.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Meta-analyses by Dowden and Andrews 2004)support the utility of ____________ interventions for offenders.
A)CBT
B)Experiential
C)Psychodynamic
D)Interpersonal
Q3) CBT treatment for insomnia includes:
A)sleep hygiene,stimulus control,sleep restriction,cognitive restructuring.
B)sleep hygiene,behavioural activation,sleep restriction,cognitive restructuring.
C)behavioural activation,sleep hygiene,exposure,cognitive restructuring.
D)exposure,cognitive restructuring,stimulus control,sleep restriction.
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