Psychiatry(pro) versus clinical psychology

clinical psychology is a better career in the sense it works to understand the cause, the true pathology of why a mental illness has arose. of the many types of clinical applications of therapies CBT is more of the renowned way of treating clients. a study done by Simon, Cord"s, and Bottino found that CBT is more effective at treating adults with depression (2015). its not necessarily that this study compares anything major but just from a clinical standpoint, the training a psychologist would obtain in their graduate program allows for treatment without the invasive additive of an external substance and potentially disrupting the system further in the client and creating some comorbidity. looking at an article done by psychology today, contrasted the difference between a psychiatrist and neurologists. both of which are medical doctors, while a psychologist is just specialized in the skill and education of the mind and working through mental pathologies. the type of schooling that a psychiatrists endures is that closer to a medical physician at which lacks the necessary experience and understanding a psychologist would get working through a PhD program. potentially creating the overuse of medical prescriptions to treat mental health as oppose to getting to the root cause. an article written by the American psychological Association looked at the prevalence of inappropriate prescribing. the article looked at how many patients who have been prescribed a medication may be given an inappropriate medication or one that does not even work properly for their specific illness. "I would say at least half the folks who are being treated with antidepressants aren't benefiting from the active pharmacological effects of the drugs themselves but from a placebo effect," says Steven Hollon, PhD, a psychology professor at Vanderbilt University who has conducted extensive research on the effectiveness of antidepressants. "If people knew more, I think they would be a little less likely to go down the medication path than the psychosocial treatment path" (smith 2012). now even looking at a sample schedule of what a clinical psychology student would go through in a graduate program provided by UC San Diego, the classes are focused around clinical application, philosophy, internship (on the job experience), and learning to apply statistical date, since psychology is still a science where measuring objective date is valid and most certainly possible. leaving the psychologist as a much more proficient professional for navigating and working to heal the root cause of and mental pathology. not to say medication is not useful, just with the training a psychiatrist gets, they are more attuned to diagnosing and treating biologically rather than testing, assessing, diagnosing, and altering the clients mental capacity or state, whether it be cognitively, behaviorally, spiritually, morally, or any other form at which the psychologist can take to help reshape the clients pathology. http://clinpsyc.sdsu.edu... Smith, L. B. (2012). Inappropriate prescribing. American Psychological Association. 46 (No. 3). Retrieved from http://www.apa.org... Simon, S. S., Cord"s, T. A., & Bottino, C. C. (2015). Cognitive Behavioral Therapies in older adults with depression and cognitive deficits: a systematic review. International Journal Of Geriatric Psychiatry, 30(3), 223-233.