How do a psychologist and psychiatrist differ? How are they the same?
What will be an ideal response?
Psychiatry is a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and is practiced by medical doctors. Psychiatrists earn an M.D. degree after which they do residencies in psychiatry.
Psychologists will earn a PhD., Ed.D., or PsyD. degree. Psychologists generally take a nonmedical approach to treating psychological problems. Clinical psychology is only one area of specialization in psychology a discipline that has a much broader scope than psychiatry.
Both psychologists and psychiatrists deal with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders.
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a. high; high b. high; low c. low; high d. low; low
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a. Applied behavior analysis b. Aversive conditioning c. Systematic desensitization d. Client-centered therapy