Library: Psychology by Credo Reference: Overview

Schools of Psychology

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Topic Page
CBT is an extremely successful and popular method of psychotherapy, loosely based on cognitive principles.
Functionalism
From The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
The view that mental states are defined by their causes and effects. As a metaphysical thesis about the nature of mental states, functionalism holds that what makes an inner state mental is not an intrinsic property of the state, but rather its relations to sensory stimulation (input), to other inner states, and to behavior (output).
Gestalt: Topic Page
School of psychology that interprets phenomena as organized wholes rather than as aggregates of distinct parts, maintaining that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Moral Psychology
From The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
The subfield of psychology that traces the development over time of moral reasoning and opinions in the lives of individuals.
Organizational Psychology
From The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
A branch of applied psychology covering organizational, military, economic and personnel psychology and including such areas as tests and measurements, the study of organizations and organizational behaviour, personnel practices, human engineering, human factors, the effects of work, fatigue, pay, consumer surveys and market research.
Positive Psychology: Topic Page
Positive psychology’s first focal area, positive subjective experience, is characterized by the study of such topics as well-being, personal happiness, life satisfaction, optimal human experience, exceptional performance, states of flow (total involvement), the importance of meaningful activity, and the good life. The second focus concerns the study of positive individual traits, and the field has already identified 24 “character strengths and virtues.”
Psychoanalysis: Topic Page
Name given by Sigmund Freud to a system of interpretation and therapeutic treatment of psychological disorders.
Structuralism
From The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
As a school or system of psychology, structuralism had its antecedents in British philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Organizations & Institutions

American Psychological Association
From Encyclopedia of Special Education
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the nation’s major psychology organization. The APA works to advance psychology as a science and a profession, and to promote human welfare.
Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital
From Encyclopedia of Special Education
The history of psychiatric care at Bellevue Hospital Center and the history of psychiatric care in the United States are closely interwoven.
Halfway Houses
From The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
Halfway houses are locales where all activities and interactions may be viewed as having potentially healing, rehabilitative, and supportive properties and where all members may consciously or unconsciously contribute to therapy.
Harvard University: Topic Page
Mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college.
Hospital: Topic Page
An institution in which certain kinds of illness are investigated and treated.
Oxford University
From The Columbia Encyclopedia
At Oxford, England, one of the oldest English-language universities in the world.
University: Topic Page
Institution of higher learning for those who have completed primary and secondary education.

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