BSC 2086 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Comprehensive School, Thematic Apperception Test, Thick Description

• School: FAU
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BSC 2086
• Professor: Lovelace Matthew

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What is its relationship to medical psychiatry and academic psychology: the revolution war, its aftermath came the york retreat which was a residential treatment center for the humane treatment of the mentally ill, established by william. Lightner witmer is responsible for the field of clinical. Psychology as we know it today, he actually came out of the academic psychology tradition. He opened the 1st psychology clinic where they predominately treated children w/learning disabilities based on scientific principles of academic psychology. b) In the beginning clinical psychology was mainly an assessment discipline based on scientific principles of academic psychology & psychologists used their quantitative skills to do mental testing. Whereas psychiatrists were the ones treating individuals with mental disorders using psychoanalysis. William tuke-he opened the york retreat where the emphasis was on the humane treatment of the mentally ill. quakers started the social movement moral therapy - treating patients humanely. They didn"t put patients in cages but did use padded restraints.