Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine

Psychiatry & Psychology practice

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This introduces key perspectives, theories, and practices in psychiatry including the recovery paradigm, clinical supervision, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and management of psychiatric emergencies. Begin to situate theoretical knowledge within a historical and ethical context to develop clinical skills to work within today’s culturally diverse communities. Social psychiatry, gaining an understanding of the social dimensions of mental health including working with families, consumers and carriers within the community as well as non-government and civil organizations. This unit introduces critical appraisal and exam preparation skills, together with classification systems in psychiatry.

Psychologists specialize in a host of different areas within the field and identify themselves by many different labels. The field of psychology encompasses both research, through which we learn fundamental things about human and nonhuman animal behavior, and practice, through which that knowledge is applied to solving problems and promoting healthy human development. In each of the subfields, there are psychologists who work primarily as researchers, others who work primarily as practitioners and many who do both (scientist–practitioners). Indeed, one of psychology’s most unique and important characteristics is its coupling of science and practice, which stimulates the continual advancement of both.