PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: School Bullying, Psychological Science
17 May 2018
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PSYC 1010 Lecture 15 Notes
Introduction
Psychological Science
• Although most psychology textbooks focus on psychological science, psychology is also a
helping profession devoted to such practical issues as how to have a happy marriage
• How to overcome anxiety or depression, and how to raise thriving children
• As a science, psychology at its best bases such interventions on evidence of
effectiveness.
• Counseling psychologists help people to cope with challenges and crises (including
academic, vocational, and marital issues) and to improve their personal and social
functioning.
• Clinical psychologists assess and treat people with mental, emotional, and behavior
disorders.
• Both counseling and clinical psychologists administer and interpret tests, provide
counseling and therapy, and sometimes conduct basic and applied research.
• By contrast, psychiatrists, who also may provide psychotherapy, are medical doctors
licensed to prescribe drugs and otherwise treat physical causes of psychological
disorders.
• Rather than seeking to change people to fit their environment, community psychologists
work to create social and physical environments that are healthy for all (Bradshaw et al.,
2009; Trickett, 2009).
• For example, if school bullying is a problem, some psychologists will seek to change the
bullies.
• Knowing that many students struggle with the transition from elementary to middle
school, they might train individual kids how to cope.
• Community psychologists instead seek ways to adapt the school experience to early
adolescent needs.
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