PSY 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Beck Depression Inventory, Naturalistic Observation, Clinical Psychology
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Clinical psychology is the study of how to assess and treat mental illness and disability. Clinical psychologists research school mental health, family and youth counseling, general therapy, effectiveness of practice, new interventions, and biomedical treatments. Biopyschology is the study of biological and physiological needs including how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect the brain. Research can be conducted in a variety of ways in the clinical psych field. This includes qualitative research journals, interviews, or focus groups, and then coding the data. In addition, research is also conducted through naturalistic observation, experiments, quasi- experimental design, and biological measures. In the biopsychology field neuroimaging can be conducted on humans, but research is not always ethical, so animals can also be used. The first clinical research method from the article is the beck depression inventory, which was conducted before the yoga sessions began to determine the severity of depression the participants started with.
