Psych Terms: Medical Dictionary and Terminology Pocket Glossary for Psychology, Psychiatry & Mental Health app good for
A very handy app. A great resource. Thank you for making it available.
As a psyc major, this is a great app to have. Although it doesnt have every specific term in the literature out there, it has enough terms to be considered helpful at the undergraduate level. Will definitely refer to it on the fly in graduate school if I hopefully get in!
Great job dude..still need to add many things to get 5 stars....
I have a mental illness and this app helps me with better understanding it in all its complication
I like the short, but to the point definitions. Helpful for reviewing, and learning new terms.
Im also a clinical psychologist, and after picking out 25 or so terms I could not find any that were truly incorrect. Granted the descriptions are brief and at an undergraduate level, but unless your looking for a copy of the DSM-IV this will suffice.
If Im missing some of the serious errors regarding this app and its definitions, please list them. So far I could not find any.
Some bad moments
The glossary begs to be divided it three different booklets with its own clear aim. The first part is the American drug-users slang, ephemerous by definition as in any other tongue. The second is an odd "Greek roots garden" of various phobias, seldom in use. The third is the idiosyncratically American vocabulary of clinical psychology and psychiatry; the latter one is the most intersting in its trends [is "psychoanalysis" already so an obscene word in U.S.A. nowadays that it needs to be substituted by a pudibond "psychoanalytic perspective"? God save America!].
Sound bite psychology. Not awful, but definitions are simplistic and could be misleading without a psych background. Some are just plain wrong.
As a clinical psychologist with over 30 years of study, training professionals, and helping clients reach their goals, I find this app very disturbing. Many of the definitions are unsupported, and others -- and Im not referring to a mere handful -- are egregiously wrong! Ive also noticed this trait to occur in other apps by this developer. Remember the admonition, "Dont believe everything you read?" This is particularly true in this case. Dont bother downloading.
If you are looking for a one sentence definition this is your app. If you are looking for real understanding you need to look elsewhere. You will do better with one of the standard dictionary apps. I was hoping for something more in depth and insightful. Ill keep looking.
"Addiction: Physical and psychological dependence on a drug."
Yep, thats it. I am not a psychologist, but know this is a misleading and incomplete definition due to an "error of omission," by neglecting to include that addiction is the result of the accumulation of poor choices, ones refusal to accept personal responsibility for both the choices made and the ultimate consequences; creating a vicious circle of self denial, delusion and blame. The definition also doesnt reveal that addiction encompasses more than just drugs. Peoples accumulations of poor choices, self denial and blame can lead to physical and/or psychological dependence on many other things. Food, sex, violence, enabling other addicts, lying, criminal acts, and many other choices a person makes based on lack of self-discipline and the repetition of the same poor choices.
I liken the definition to defining a car as a four door four wheeled Crown Victoria used to transport ones self to a movie theater.
There are much better resources than the Psych Terms app.
One star is for the app; the second star is for the inclusion of a sheer number of both familiar and unfamiliar psychology-related terms whose definitions can be looked up elsewhere.
I hope the developers are in the process of creating fuller, more precise information. Many, if not all, of the definitions are very vague and bordering on completely misleading. Along with a definitive terms, perhaps it would be beneficial to add a new little link in each to general symptoms. There are a lot of terms, so clearly that would be a lot of work to do. But hey, its psych. Nothing is black and white in psych. There are millions of acres of grey areas and to simplify any part of it, as this app has unfortunately done, is an injustice to those with mental illness everywhere. Knowledge is power but if that knowledge is wrong, ignorance is born.
