Clinical Psychology

trials yield encouraging results, the program is implemented in the community, and its effective- ness is again assessed. As can ...

Identify problem or disorder andreview informationto determine its extent With an emphasis on risk and protectivefactors, revie ...

social learning concept of locus of control (Phares, 1976; Rotter, 1966). As Rappaport (1977) notes: What is important about thi ...

Social Intervention Concepts The conventional strategy of intervention has always implied that one achieves good health exclusiv ...

move toward creating a proper person–environ- ment fit rather than changing the affected people so that they will fit the approp ...

■ Placing responsibility on the individual gives a degree of legitimacy to attempts to intervene at the person level (as is comm ...

practiced in rural or underdeveloped areas where there was a shortage of mental health personnel. Consultation became a way of u ...

where formerly chronic, hospitalized patients can learn independent-living skills. The Mendota Pro- gram (Marx, Test, & Stei ...

members; (b) they provide role models—indivi- duals who have faced and conquered problems that group members are dealing with; ( ...

depression found that those who participated in a peer-support intervention (usually a peer-support group) showed better outcome ...

laudable—better mental health for all. In case the reader had not noticed, this last statement almost sounds as if it might have ...

sense, must compete with more established forms of intervention (e.g., one-on-one psychotherapy); and (c) preventive programs ma ...

centers has dwindled considerably, and few doctoral programs dedicated specifically to the training of the community-based persp ...

program-centered administrative consulta- tionA type of mental health consultation that focuses on helping with the institution ...

17 Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine FOCUS QUESTIONS What historical events influenced the develop- ment of the field o ...

Training Issues Other Challenges BOX17-4:Clinical Psychologist Perspective: Beth E. Meyerowitz, Ph.D. CHAPTER SUMMARY KEY TERMS ...

many kinds of psychologists—social, industrial, physiological, and others. Health psychology has been specifically defined as th ...

Another set of factors was slow to develop but ultimately had a strong impact. By the 1960s, many major infectious diseases had ...

model of stress is depicted in Figure 17-1. These and other psychosocial stimuli may contribute to a stress process that can the ...

in the forebrain) to release adrenocorticotropic hor- mone (ACTH), and ACTH stimulates the adrenal cortex of the adrenal gland t ...