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Clinical psychology is a broad practice of psychology. Psychology.org defines clinical psychology as the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental diseases. Myers and Dewall (2015) textbook describes clinical psychologists as a psychologist with a Ph. D (includes research training) or Psy D. (focuses on therapy) supplemented by a supervised internship and other postdoctoral training, half working in schools or hospitals and the other half are in private practice. (p. 681) Clinical psychologists may use their specific area of practice to treat mental diseases based on the patient, group, or disorder

For this interview assignment, I was lucky enough to interview someone that I have always looked up to and is very close to my heart, my sister Michelle Diaz. Ms. Diaz has her Bachelors in Psychology, minor in human development and is currently enrolled in the Clinical Psychology Masters program at Eastern Illinois University. While she’s working towards obtaining her Masters in Science of Clinical Psychology she also holds a job as a Medical Health Technician (MHT) at a health care facility called The Pavilion. The Pavilion is a behavioral health system the staff provides therapeutic programming that includes individual, group and family therapy. Activity and recreational therapy, psycho-educational groups and medical intervention are also provided. As a MHT, Ms. Diaz is responsible for monitoring the patients to make sure that they don’t cause harm to themselves or anyone else. She also runs therapy sessions. The age group that Ms. Diaz works with is from ages 4 to 17 years old. The goal of these sessions is for the patient to gain more awareness and be able to get to the root of their problems, and for them to be able to solve these problems on their own. Also, giving them the tools necessary for them to be able to problem solve on their own.

In these services they would usually be offered help with activities of daily life, such as eating or bathing. Some home services also give them other benefits such as residential services, personal care or case management. To give more open details on experiences of Medicaid beneficiaries who need home and communities based services Musumeci and Reaves discuss nine seniors who are disabled and who live in different states. Those include people with different kind of disabilities which can be either developmental, physical or intellectual and issues such as autism, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and their functional limitations that are there because they aged (Musumeci & Reaves, 2014). Based on interview that were given from these people to the Kaiser Commission in 2013 based on Medicaid and uninsured, these peoples’ profiles clearly show us how beneficiaries funds, well-being, status of their employment are affected by the coverage of Medicaid and the role these services play in their daily lives (Musumeci & Reaves, 2014). In the last years states are trying to work on rebalancing long-term care system by dedicating more spending to home and community care rather than institutional care. The reason is this being the efforts that are driven by beneficiaries who are

The Medicaid health home state plan option looks promising for the state of California. This expands beyond the traditional medical homes model, that in many states, have developed in their Medicaid programs. It offers home health services to eligible individual with chronic conditions, with flexibility in selecting home providers (Medicaid.gov, n.d.). States participating in this option must require that hospitals who

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USA - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced plans for a demonstration project that will allow some Medicare beneficiaries to receive medical adult day care services under the home health benefit. This demonstration will permit Medicare to assess whether providing medical adult day care services through the home health benefit will improve patient out comes and provide the ...

It is my strong desire to attend Fielding Graduate University APA (American Psychological Association) accredited doctoral program in clinical psychology. I have always been intrigued by the human mind for as long as I can remember, specifically the psychopathology of it. I truly enjoy conducting psychological research, learning about psychopathology and how to treat it. While conducting research and learning, it is important to remember that the purpose of psychology isn’t to predict a person’s thoughts, actions, and behaviors, but to understand them. There are dozens of events that occurred in my twenty-five years of life that led me to this meaningful choice of pursuing a doctorate. The two most significant events were when I was in the

After reading chapter 1 of Ronald J. Comer’s book, Fundamentals of Psychology, I now have a clear understanding of what clinical psychologists and psychologists, in general, deal with on a daily basis when faced with people who have psychological problems. These psychological problems all have some common features to these abnormalities. These four common features are deviance, distress, dysfunction and danger. To start off, deviance can be described as actions, behaviors, thoughts and emotions that are mostly different than those people who are within the cultural norm. People who break these cultural norms are considered to be deviant, but it is based off of what people consider to be “normal.” These

For the first date, I picked November 9, 1978. The most significant person mentioned on this date is Frank Costin. Frank Costin was the director of the introductory psychology program, and organized the first Institute on Teaching Psychology to Undergraduates. The Institute on Teaching Psychology to Undergraduates is now called the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP) and was created with the idea that psychology faculty could come together to express their ideas and advice to others. Some of the things they voiced were the day to day feelings of being a professor, for example, the frustrations, challenges, problems, and joys of teaching. NITOP has been a non-profit, free-standing organization since 1998, and has allowed

Labels distinguish individuals in everyday life; if 2000 people from across the world were randomly selected and put into categories of hair colour, none of them would share exactly the same shade of colour. Despite this continuity humans still continue to assign each other to discrete hair-colour categories such as ‘blonde’ or ‘brown’ which have no basis in biology but still go on to determine how that person is thought of in society. The American Psychology Association (APA) provides guidelines for researchers to follow in both research and writing scientifically in order to avoid any form of labelling bias when referring to participants or groups of participants. These guidelines are in place to ensure that the participants within research or experiments are protected against any psychological harm on a personal and emotional level but also from the effects of labelling within society.

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Labels distinguish individuals in everyday life; if 2000 people from across the world were randomly selected and put into categories of hair colour, none of them would share exactly the same shade of colour. Despite this continuity humans still continue to assign each other to discrete hair-colour categories such as ‘blonde’ or ‘brown’ which have no basis in biology but still go on to determine how that person is thought of in society. The American Psychology Association (APA) provides guidelines for researchers to follow in both research and writing scientifically in order to avoid any form of labelling bias when referring to participants or groups of participants. These guidelines are in place to ensure that the participants within

In Invitation to Psychology, Carole Wade, et al informs us that “memory refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information and also to the structures that account for this capacity” (Wade, et al., 2015, p.269). It is possible that the patient's concern stemming from a not entirely accurate memory. What we consider facts that we have remembered is often times a little fact and a lot of fiction. We actually remember bits and pieces of information and our brain automatically fills in the rest of the story so it is often distorted.

You can go to number of course from a level 6 course in social care. Some of the areas you can end up is in a nursing home, if you can into psychology you can be a psychologist. You can also be a social worker.

The study participants were enrolled in General Psychology courses at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The participants were 121 men and women (90 males, 30 females, 1 declined to answer). All students were between the ages of 18 and 25. In addition, 2.5% (n=3) participants have not served on a jury while 97.5% (n=118) have not. Study participants received one research credit for their General Psychology course. All General Psychology students are required to earn 10 research credits during the semester in which they take the course.